GEOM warning in dmesg

[Jamie Paul Griffin]

Hi everyone

I have just installed FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE amd64 onto my new Lenovo ThinkCentre and i'm dual-booting FreeBSD with Windows & which was preinstalled.

When the system boots i see the message shown below in dmesg which relates to the partitions on the FreeBSD slice. So far i have not experienced any problems with using the system and it does boot into the OS ok. but i don't know if there's a problem here that i need to fix or if it's a warning i can ignore because i don't know what it means. i am hoping someone can help me and explain what it is.

Here is the text:

GEOM: ad8: partition 4 does not start on a track boundary.
GEOM: ad8: partition 4 does not end on a track boundary.
GEOM: ad8: partition 3 does not start on a track boundary.
GEOM: ad8: partition 3 does not end on a track boundary.
GEOM: ad8: partition 2 does not start on a track boundary.
GEOM: ad8: partition 2 does not end on a track boundary.
GEOM: ad8: partition 1 does not start on a track boundary.
GEOM: ad8: partition 1 does not end on a track boundary.
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[Michael J. Kearney]

Press "a" at the partitioning program during install. .. i think you can fix that post install too **-*

[Jamie Paul Griffin]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 12:11:58PM -0400, Michael J. Kearney wrote:
> Press "a" at the partitioning program during install. .. i think you can fix that post install too **-*
>

thanks for your reply but could you be more specific?

jamie

[Michael J. Kearney]

I'm texting .it ... try the windows software. .ru I'm sick of myself ... .fr

Yeaah.. create it initally. .cn with windows software then fbsd bootloader. .jp the error is closely related to fbsd with out complicating things..

Jamie Paul Griffin <ja...@gnix.co.uk> wrote:

[Jamie Paul Griffin]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 12:41:17PM -0400, Michael J. Kearney wrote:
> I'm texting .it ... try the windows software. .ru I'm sick of myself ... .fr
>
> Yeaah.. create it initally. .cn with windows software then fbsd bootloader. .jp the error is closely related to fbsd with out complicating things..

i'm sorry but that doesn't make any sense at all. could you explain a solution more clearly please?

[Polytropon]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:46:48 +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin <ja...@gnix.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> I have just installed FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE amd64 onto my new
> Lenovo ThinkCentre and i'm dual-booting FreeBSD with Windows
> & which was preinstalled.
>
> When the system boots i see the message shown below in dmesg
> which relates to the partitions on the FreeBSD slice. So far
> i have not experienced any problems with using the system and
> it does boot into the OS ok. but i don't know if there's a
> problem here that i need to fix or if it's a warning i can
> ignore because i don't know what it means. i am hoping someone
> can help me and explain what it is.

The message indicates that there is a discrepancy between
reported values (BIOS vs. disk) about the disk geometry.

> Here is the text:
>
> GEOM: ad8: partition 4 does not start on a track boundary.
> GEOM: ad8: partition 4 does not end on a track boundary.
> GEOM: ad8: partition 3 does not start on a track boundary.
> GEOM: ad8: partition 3 does not end on a track boundary.
> GEOM: ad8: partition 2 does not start on a track boundary.
> GEOM: ad8: partition 2 does not end on a track boundary.
> GEOM: ad8: partition 1 does not start on a track boundary.
> GEOM: ad8: partition 1 does not end on a track boundary.

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.

--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

[Michael J. Kearney]

Likely. ... i suppose that it makes little sense to poke around with it. Although i don't agree with polytropon, i can't very well diagnose the problem with an Android phone. .uk

I am speaking from experience when i say it's related to freebsd..

If you attempt this on your own, start looking through google starting with the keyphrase "freebsd partition". I don't see any shame in that..

Jamie Paul Griffin <j.gr...@msn.com> wrote:

On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 12:41:17PM -0400, Michael J. Kearney wrote:
> I'm texting .it ... try the windows software. .ru I'm sick of myself ... .fr
>
> Yeaah.. create it initally. .cn with windows software then fbsd bootloader. .jp the error is closely related to fbsd with out complicating things..

i'm sorry but that doesn't make any sense at all. could you explain a solution more clearly please?

jamie

[Jerry]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:09:22 +0200
Polytropon <fre...@edvax.de> articulated:

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.

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[Jamie Paul Griffin]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 01:55:17PM -0400, Jerry wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:09:22 +0200
> Polytropon <fre...@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

[Bruce Cran]

On Wednesday 06 Apr 2011 17:58:21 Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:

> i'm sorry but that doesn't make any sense at all. could you explain a
> solution more clearly please?

There's no problem. Maybe MS-DOS or Windows 95 would have problems with such a
layout, but modern operating systems don't.

--
Bruce Cran

[Jamie Paul Griffin]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 07:24:29PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 Apr 2011 17:58:21 Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
>
> > i'm sorry but that doesn't make any sense at all. could you explain a
> > solution more clearly please?
>
> There's no problem. Maybe MS-DOS or Windows 95 would have problems with such a
> layout, but modern operating systems don't.

i am sure you're right but i simply didn't understand what he was trying to say and i really only wanted to understand what the warnings meant.

jamie

[Michael J. Kearney]

I really don't think i have much control over what other people think lol .cn

Jamie Paul Griffin <ja...@gnix.co.uk> wrote:

[Jud]

On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 18:36:06 -0400, Michael J. Kearney
<mkea...@nvita.org> wrote:

> I really don't think i have much control over what other people think
> lol .cn
>
> Jamie Paul Griffin <ja...@gnix.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 07:24:29PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
>> On Wednesday 06 Apr 2011 17:58:21 Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
>>
>> > i'm sorry but that doesn't make any sense at all. could you explain a
>> > solution more clearly please?
>>
>> There's no problem. Maybe MS-DOS or Windows 95 would have problems with
>> such a
>> layout, but modern operating systems don't.
>
> i am sure you're right but i simply didn't understand what he was trying
> to say and i really only wanted to understand what the warnings meant.

Which is exactly what he's trying to avoid (you understanding what he's
saying). He's spamming you for some reason, with vague-sounding stuff
interspersed with country abbreviations like jp (Japan), cn (Canada) - in
other words, nonsense.

Back on topic, you can and should ignore the warnings. They won't cause
any problems, which certainly can't be said about you fiddling with your
partitions.

Jud

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[Jamie Paul Griffin]

> Which is exactly what he's trying to avoid (you understanding what he's
> saying). He's spamming you for some reason, with vague-sounding stuff
> interspersed with country abbreviations like jp (Japan), cn (Canada) - in
> other words, nonsense.

yes very bizarre person.

> Back on topic, you can and should ignore the warnings. They won't cause
> any problems, which certainly can't be said about you fiddling with your
> partitions.

> Jud

thank you for your clear advice Jud.

best wishes

jamie