geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s)

2009-12-09 Thread regis505
What are the meaning of the messages below when I boot 8.0-RELEASE-p1 and how can I prevent that? GEOM: ad6s1: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s). ... GEOM: ad6s2: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s). GEOM: ufsid/478e98a7fe5111d0: geometry does not match label

Re: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s)

2009-12-09 Thread J.D. Bronson
I see this too. I even went so far as to edit the labels and start again and then I got the opposite: geometry does not match label (16h,63s != 255h,63s) ..so I gave up. Google didnt turn anything up but I dont see this on FreeBSD 7.x at all. Only 8 So far, it has not been any issue from what

RE: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s)

2009-12-09 Thread Peter Steele
-questions@freebsd.org; regis505 Subject: Re: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s) J.D. Bronson: I see this too. I even went so far as to edit the labels and start again and then I got the opposite: I see that too on 8.0 geometry does not match label (16h,63s != 255h,63s

Re: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s)

2009-12-09 Thread J.D. Bronson
What if we tried a custom kernel and removed these lines: options GEOM_PART_GPT # GUID Partition Tables. options GEOM_LABEL # Provides labelization I think that might remove these 'errors'. -- J.D. Bronson Information Technology

Re: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s)

2009-12-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Peter Steele wrote: Add my name to the list--we get tons of these messages since upgrading to 8.0 This isn't new with 8.x; it's been around since 4.0, if not earlier. For a long time, BIOSes using the older C/H/S addressing mechanism were limited to

Re: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s)

2009-12-09 Thread Michael Powell
J.D. Bronson wrote: What if we tried a custom kernel and removed these lines: options GEOM_PART_GPT # GUID Partition Tables. options GEOM_LABEL # Provides labelization I think that might remove these 'errors'. My kernel already has these removed

Re: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s)

2009-12-09 Thread J.D. Bronson
Well then so much for my idea of removing those options from the kernel. Darn. Well if they have 'been' there since earlier FreeBSD I wonder why we never saw them until 8.x now ? There must be some reason... They do not appear to be anything but cosmetic but still annoying and worrisome for

Re: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s)

2009-12-09 Thread RW
On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:59:51 -0800 Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Hi-- On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Peter Steele wrote: Add my name to the list--we get tons of these messages since upgrading to 8.0 This isn't new with 8.x; it's been around since 4.0, if not earlier. Something

Re: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s)

2009-12-09 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:36:53 + RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:59:51 -0800 Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Hi-- On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Peter Steele wrote: Add my name to the list--we get tons of these messages since upgrading to 8.0

GEOM: ad0s1: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s).

2009-12-04 Thread Alexandre L.
Hi, I have installed my laptop with FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 first (now I'm on 8.0-Release-p1) and in dmesg I got this error message : GEOM: ad0s1: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s). I have search on the Web about the method to resolv this, but I haven't found anything that helps me