Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 02:20:36 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New warning, what does it mean? Message-ID: <20090103102036.GB81276@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20090102.115426.-1540393465.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20090102.115426.-1540393465.imp@bsdimp.com>
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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. :-( -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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