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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, terry@lambert.org
Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure
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>If you are going to present fake geometry numbers, they should percoalte
>up from where the real geometry numbers are coming from.

They do percolate up, but there is no "real" geometry.  There lots of
different geometries:

	default for newfs:	independent, X/1/4096
	values in the label:	independent, usually unused
	values in the partition table: should agree with BIOS
	BIOS			indepependent, important only for booting and
				in other OS's
	physical:		independent, usually an average for sectors/
				track, usually unused

These geometries should NOT be visible in all layers.

Bruce