All I can say is that the same thing happened to me.Let me start by qualifying I am extremely new to FreeBSD (I have performed a whopping two installs thus far).
I am looking to fire up a machine with a single western digital special edition 80GB IDE drive for simple storage and testing.
The BIOS detects the correct geometry for the drive, and both Windows 2000 and Linux (RedHat 9) correctly detect the geometry and install on the drive (each OS installed independently to verify the drive and BIOS were working - this is not a multi-boot setup).
FreeBSD version 5.1 however, pops up a message stating the geometry chosen by FreeBSD during installation is incorrect.
If I hit "G" when assigning the slices and drop in the correct geometry (as reported by the BIOS), I can assign slices (defaults) and the installation runs through, but it will fail on the next boot (won't even get to the boot manager).
If I select "G" when assigning slices, plug in the values, then force a write using the "W" option, I get a warning, then everything installs and fails on reboot.
Note: This same machine will accept an installation and run beautifully using a different hard drive (anything I have other than a Western Digital 80GB Special Edition), and I have tried two of the 80GB special edition drives to ensure it is not a mechanical problem with just one of the drives. Both of the special edition drives performed identically (which is to say not at all).
Google is mute on the subject.
Any help would be appreciated.
Jim
James Leone
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