Isaac Mushinsky wrote:

If I set SATA controller to AHCI, the system boots (although with some ACPI
errors), and I was able to install. However, fdisk thinks that the geometry
is "incorrect", and insists on a different one
Sysinstall nearly always says this, and undoubtedly sysinstall is nearly* always correct. Ignore it and move on.

(it says the drives have
476gb rather than 500gb).

Manufacturers like to make their disks look bigger by using 1000 instead of 1024 when scaling Kb to Gb so:

   476 Gb * 1024 * 1024   = 499122176K bytes

   500 "Gb" * 1000 * 1000 = 500000000K bytes

which is near as dammit the same.

--Alex

*In ten years of FreeBSD I have seen the warning many times, and seen people asking about the warning many, many, many times. What I never remember seeing is any case where someone needed to do anything about that warning. That doesn't prove anything (my memory is of unknown reliability), but you have my word that it's not *that* bad :-)



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