> I had a similar problem with a P60 a few years back.  Its boot drive was
> SCSI, and I couldn't figure out a way to boot NetBSD with it.  The
> solution was to use NT's fdisk, after which NetBSD overwrote the NT
> installation and booted successfully.  
> 
> According to the FAQ, NetBSD reads the MBR (if extant) to determine the
> geometry.  That would explain my solution and your problem.  If FreeBSD
> writes a good MBR, that would seem a way out.  :/

There is some horrid code that works out the CHS values by solving
simultaenous equations based on the current values of the MBR.

This is only used if the information wasn't obtained from the BIOS
at boot time.

	David

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