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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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