From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 6 18:20:24 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F62C10656DD for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 18:20:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jpg@griffin.gnix.co.uk) Received: from griffin.gnix.co.uk (griffin.gnix.co.uk [80.229.5.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0776C8FC1A for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 18:20:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from griffin.gnix.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by griffin.gnix.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0692222A0D for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:28:00 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gnix.co.uk Received: from griffin.gnix.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by griffin.gnix.co.uk (griffin.gnix.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id CoyohA2D05Tl for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:27:52 +0100 (BST) Received: by griffin.gnix.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8588E22A0C; Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:27:52 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:27:52 +0100 From: Jamie Paul Griffin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110406182752.GC44782@griffin.gnix.co.uk> References: <20110406144648.GA44550@griffin.gnix.co.uk> <20110406190922.7daebbb1.freebsd@edvax.de> <20110406135517.20f90d49@scorpio> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110406135517.20f90d49@scorpio> X-PGP-Key: http://gnix.co.uk/jpg-pubkey.asc X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p2 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: Re: GEOM warning in dmesg X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:20:24 -0000 On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 01:55:17PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:09:22 +0200 > Polytropon 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 , 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