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Synopsis: Weird disk geometry selected in "custom" installation

State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: joerg
State-Changed-When: Sat Oct 18 13:50:12 MEST 1997
State-Changed-Why: 

So-called `real' geometries (*) are irrelevant to FreeBSD's
installation program; the BIOS geometry is relevant, and what you're
presenting as your `bogus' figures looks awfully reasonable as a BIOS
geometry, much unlike the other figures.

(*) Real geometries of today's disks cannot be expressed with a
uniform number of sectors per track, they are something like ``2100
cylinders, 15 heads, and between 50 and 100 sectors per track'' (for
example).