Geometry Incorrect FreeBSD-5.2.1 installation problem(s)....

From: Forrest Aldrich (forrie_at_forrie.com)
Date: 02/28/04

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    I've a SOYO Dragon Platinum Edition motherboard, with SATA drives.
    According to FreeBSD's installation process, my geometry is incorrectly
    set. So, I did as it asked, rebooted into the BIOS and retrieved the
    figures:

    Cylinders: 38309
    Head: 16
    Pre: 0
    LandZone: 38308
    Sectors: 255

    I selected the "G" command from sysinstall's menu to set the geometry
    manually: 38309/16/255 (cyl/hd/sector) and it still insists the figures
    are wrong. It's defaulting back to what it believes is correct:
    9729 cylinders
    255 heads
    63 sectors

    These are 80gb SATA drives. The BIOS is set to run in IDE Enhanced mode
    (I believe).

    I did a test installation and it worked, except the dreaded GRUB loader
    (from a linux test install) keeps coming up (fdisk /mbr does NOT get rid
    of it)... I don't know if that's the cause of this problem (doubtful).

    Any clues as to what might be wrong? The BIOS is AMI/Phoenix, and is
    up-to-date.

    Thanks.

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