david@l8s.co.uk (David Laight) writes:

> That looks fine.  Note that the 'end:' line of the NetBSD partition
> reports CHS values that are at the end of the area addressable using
> CHS and the bios geometry.  This is absolutely fine, and completely
> normal.  Those fields in the disklabel only have 10 bits for the
> cylinder, 8 bits for the head and 6 for the sector.

I bet this is the crux of my problem.  I assumed that since the end:
line was reporting bogus values, that there was some serious problem.

I have learned to not write out a new partition table without being
sure that the values are right.  I'll try again, this time not
worrying about bogus 'end:' values.

-russ