4.9-Stable: Disk error booting from hard drive

[Max Clark]

Hi all,

I am completely stumped by this one. I have a new MSI 1u P1-1000 server: 
2.4GHz P4, 1GB Ram, with a 40GB IDE (38166MB <ST340014A> [77545/16/63]) 
hard drive on the primary master channel.

Here's the problem, I can install 4.9-Stable, but when I finish and 
reboot the machine the bios reports disk error, the machine reboots and 
is trapped in this loop (I've tried setting the box up with a Boot 
Manger and Standard, but it doesn't work for either).

To make things interesting 5.2-Release works fine, I can install, 
reboot, everything is cool. I don't understand what is going on here, I 
even tried re-downloading the 4.9 iso to check my cd with no luck.

This machine will be a high use server so I really want to run Stable, 
what do I need to do?

Thanks in advance,
Max

This is the dmesg from 5.2:

Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
         The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE #0: Sun Jan 11 04:21:45 GMT 2004
     root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc0a33000.
Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/acpi.ko" at 0xc0a331f4.
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (2391.15-MHz 686-class CPU)
   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
 
Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
real memory  = 1073676288 (1023 MB)
avail memory = 1033510912 (985 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <IntelR AWRDACPI>
ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
npx0: [FAST]
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
acpi0: <IntelR AWRDACPI> on motherboard
pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
Using $PIR table, 10 entries at 0xc00fdec0
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x408-0x40b on acpi0
acpi_cpu0: <CPU> on acpi0
acpi_cpu1: <CPU> on acpi0
device_probe_and_attach: acpi_cpu1 attach returned 6
acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <Intel 82845 host to AGP bridge> mem 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff at 
device 0.0 on pci0
pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> port 0xd800-0xd81f 
irq 16 at device 29.0 on pci0
usb0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> port 0xd000-0xd01f 
irq 19 at device 29.1 on pci0
usb1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> port 0xd400-0xd41f 
irq 18 at device 29.2 on pci0
usb2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> on uhci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 29.7 (no driver attached)
pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 1.7.19> port 
0xc000-0xc03f mem 0xe2000000-0xe201ffff irq 21 at device 5.0 on pci2
em0:  Speed:N/A  Duplex:N/A
fxp0: <Intel 82551 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0xc400-0xc43f mem 
0xe2020000-0xe203ffff,0xe2041000-0xe2041fff irq 23 at device 6.0 on pci2
fxp0: Ethernet address 00:0c:76:4e:78:73
miibus0: <MII bus> on fxp0
inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
pci2: <display, VGA> at device 7.0 (no driver attached)
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller> port 
0xf000-0xf00f,0-0x3,0-0x7,0-0x3,0-0x7 at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata0: [MPSAFE]
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
ata1: [MPSAFE]
pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> port 
0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
sio0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
sio1: type 16550A
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
acpi_cpu1: <CPU> on acpi0
device_probe_and_attach: acpi_cpu1 attach returned 6
orm0: <Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
ppc0: parallel port not found.
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2391145900 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
GEOM: create disk ad0 dp=0xc6b80d60
ad0: 38166MB <ST340014A> [77545/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
acd0: CDROM <SR244W> at ata1-master PIO4
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
em0: Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
em0: Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex