In message <20020506201143.GA1474@brick.hn.org>, "Ryan M. McConahy" writes:
>Hello!
>
>I'm trying to get NetBSD working with a GNU/Linux system. I downloaded the bin
>aries and install disks for NetBSD-1.5.2, and put them on my ext2 partition.
>
>With the install kernel, is it possible to mount the ext2 partition to get the
> sets?
>
>If that works, can I put NetBSD above cyl. 1024? And if I do, how do I boot th
>e kernel? Can it be booted above cyl. 1024, or do I have to put it on my boot 
>partition?
>
>Here's my partition layout, if it can help:
>
>hda1	(boot)	primary	ext2	8mb
>hda5	main	logical	ext2	~18500mb
>hda6		logical	ext2	~25
>hda7		logical	OpenBSD	1500
>
>The OpenBSD partition is from when I tried to install OpenBSD. It never worked
> right, because it was above cyl. 1024. Can that, or the BSD disklabel that go
>es with it, be useful?

It may be a BIOS issue -- the limit on where the boot stuff is depends 
on what parts of the disk your BIOS can address.

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