Re: New warning, what does it mean?

From: David O'Brien <obrien_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 02:20:36 -0800
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 11:54:26AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> I'm getting the following from my main disk on boot now:
> GEOM: ad0s2: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s).
.. 
> Why are they complaining?  What is the corrective action to be taken
> here?  Why does it matter with modern disks and BIOSes anyway?

All very good questions.  See my recent "Shooting sysinstall/SADE
geometry warning in the head" thread.  Seems maybe GEOM_PART_BSD
took a page from that book and should be smacked also.

I don't see why FreeBSD is making such a mess of geometries with
modern SATA/IDE disks.  We seem to be the standout here. :-(

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-- David  (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
Received on Sat Jan 03 2009 - 09:20:43 UTC

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