Jonathan Stone writes:
> Here's a suggestion to avoid these problems: Change disklabel's idea
> of the `source of truth' to be the MBR, not the operator.

The one problem is this: brand new disks have no MBR.

Now, the BIOS *does* know what the BIOS translated geometry is,
except, the BIOS has no easy way to identify a drive except for the
BIOS device number, and there is no easy way to map between that
number and the NetBSD device name.

Perry