On May 23, 2011, at 12:44 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > I don't know enough about the topic to know what's "best," however what I > would like to add to the conversation is that it would be nice if we did it > the same way that windows and linux do it, because otherwise you end up with > messages like these: > > GEOM: ad0s2: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s). > GEOM: ad0s3: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s). > > when you use a windows or linux tool to partition your disk before installing > FreeBSD. I have tried various combinations of tools and methods of slicing > the disk and never found a way to avoid error messages one way or another, so > I just ignore them now. > > If there is truly no reason to do it one way or the other, can we please just > do it the way that everyone else does it?
These messages can simply be deleted. They serve no purpose at all. The firmware is reporting a different bogus geometry than the label is encoded. Alternatively, we could likely supress the warning for the 'it is bigger than this' encoding of 1023/255/63, since that's the more-or-less official way of having the MBR report 'saturated'. Warner_______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
