Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:27:52 +0100 From: Jamie Paul Griffin <jamie@gnix.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM warning in dmesg Message-ID: <20110406182752.GC44782@griffin.gnix.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110406135517.20f90d49@scorpio> References: <20110406144648.GA44550@griffin.gnix.co.uk> <20110406190922.7daebbb1.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110406135517.20f90d49@scorpio>
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On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 01:55:17PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:09:22 +0200 > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> articulated: > > > The message indicates that there is a discrepancy between > > reported values (BIOS vs. disk) about the disk geometry. > > > > Using some google, there are the following things you could > > read: > > > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=9105 > > > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=9524 > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-March/004830.html > > > > http://koitsu.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/testing-out-freebsd-8-0-rc1/ > > > > There are explainations and solutions. I hope it will help. > > But as I said, I'm quite sure you can ignore the messages > > as they do not affect the system. > > I had a disk two years ago that caused FBSD to spew the same nonsense. > I downloaded FreeDOS <http://www.freedos.org/>, created a CD then > proceeded to removed all of the partition information from the disk. I > then recreated the partition format I wanted, rebooted and formatted > the drive. Now, when I installed FBSD there were no error messages. I > don't know if that will help you or not. thanks to you both. it seems it's nothing to worry about so i'm happy to just ignore the warnings, i was just worried it might cause problems in some way later on. jamie
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