i386/146931: FreeBSD 8.x Installation Failure

[Bruce Stephens]

>Number:         146931
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       FreeBSD 8.x Installation Failure
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon May 24 21:30:04 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Bruce Stephens
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.0 201004
>Organization:
>Environment:
Unable to get that far
>Description:
Boot Failure - reaches...

fwohcio: fwohci_intr_core: BUS reset
md0: Preloaded image ...
ad0: 114473MB <Seagate ST3120026A 3.06> at at0-master UDMA100
acd0: CDRW <LITE-ON COMBO LTC-48161H/KH0N> at ata1-master UDMA33
GEOM ad0s1: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16H,63s).

and it just freezes. This occurs on the Nov 2009 version of FreeBSD 8.0 as well as the April 2010 version.
Nothing proceeds and I tried tricking the software by setting the head/sector counts without success.

>How-To-Repeat:
Install DVD ISO and boot on ShuttleX
>Fix:
Don't mind testing.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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