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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 08:55:27 -0400
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] MBR messed up on installation
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why is netbsd making up chs numbers?  it would seem to me that that is
the problem.  i'm not sure where the fdisk partition table standard is,
so i can't say definatively this is wrong.  but it seems like trouble, making
up one's on chs numbers.

- erik

> Disk: /dev/rwd0d
> NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
> cylinders: 38792, heads: 16, sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)
> total sectors: 39102336
> 
> BIOS disk geometry:
> cylinders: 1024, heads: 255, sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)
> total sectors: 39102336