On Mar 19, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Ed Schouten wrote: > * Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt_at_mac.com> wrote: >> It means that the number of heads the disk reports it has is >> not the same as the number of heads that sysinstall put in >> the BSD disklabel. A mismatch for the number of heads is >> generally speaking harmless, but the discrepancy is there >> and it may be a problem in some cases. Hence the message. > > Is there a simple way to repair this? bsdlabel -e -A $dev Fix "tracks/cylinder" and recalculate "sectors/cylinder". Based on "sectors/unit" and "sectors/cylinder", adjust "cylinders" accordingly. You want to boot from an alternate media for this. I haven't decided how (if at all) this should be fixable with gpart. A "recreate" verb could do the trick... -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt_at_mac.comReceived on Thu Mar 19 2009 - 15:30:47 UTC
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