Re: 8.0 upgrade geometry does not match label

2010-04-30 Thread Reinhard Haller
. The information you gave does not point towards any problems. All looks good. Also, the subject line mentions geometry does not match label, but you did not mention anything it in your email about it. Again, it by itself does not indicate a problem. Thanks, the kernel reboots and one of the last

8.0 upgrade geometry does not match label

2010-04-29 Thread Reinhard Haller
Hi, as far as I know my disk is not operating in dangerously dedicated mode. Despite this I'm unable to upgrade to freebsd 8.0. Here is what the gpart, mount, bsdlabel say. gpart show = 63 488397105 ad4 MBR (233G) 63 4883920021 freebsd [active] (233G) 488392065

Re: 8.0 upgrade geometry does not match label

2010-04-29 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
looks good. Also, the subject line mentions geometry does not match label, but you did not mention anything it in your email about it. Again, it by itself does not indicate a problem. Thanks, -- Marcel Moolenaar xcl...@mac.com ___ freebsd-questions

Re: 8.0 upgrade geometry does not match label

2010-04-29 Thread Michael Powell
Reinhard Haller wrote: Hi, as far as I know my disk is not operating in dangerously dedicated mode. Despite this I'm unable to upgrade to freebsd 8.0. Here is what the gpart, mount, bsdlabel say. [snip] I remember problems with the initial sysinstall because of geometry problems --

geometry does not match label

2009-12-30 Thread Robin Becker
. In dmesg I see .. GEOM_MIRROR: Device mirror/gm0 launched (1/2). GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: rebuilding provider ad1. GEOM: mirror/gm0s1: geometry does not match label (16h,63s != 255h,63s). .. Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a .. anyone know if I should worry about the geometry

Re: geometry does not match label

2009-12-30 Thread Michael Powell
than ad0/ad2. In dmesg I see .. GEOM_MIRROR: Device mirror/gm0 launched (1/2). GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: rebuilding provider ad1. GEOM: mirror/gm0s1: geometry does not match label (16h,63s != 255h,63s). .. Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a .. anyone know if I

Re: geometry does not match label

2009-12-30 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: [snip] You should know that the ad0/ad1 will result in a fairly drastic performance hit. This is a master/slave arrangement on the same channel. You really really should get another cable and do the ad0/ad2 arrangement. And, of course, as soon as I hit the Send

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

[8.0] GEOM: ad0: geometry does not match label (225h, 63s != 16h63s)

2009-12-05 Thread Alex de Kruijff
: geometry does not match label (225h,63s != 16h63s) Sysinstall (with 7.2) says: A geometry of 484521/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect. Using a more likely geometry. The next screen says: DISK Geometry: 30401 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 488392065 sectors (238472MB) fdisk *** Working on device /dev/ad0

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

geometry does not match label

2009-05-10 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: when i try to boot the system using FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 bootonly CD, the following line is shown. GEOM: ad4: geometry does not match label (255h,63S != 16h, 63s) i just selected the entire disk and marked it bootable in the fdisk partition editor option. The system has a 160GB SATA