On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 06:22:57AM +0200, Michael Core wrote:
> atatat@atatdot.net (Andrew Brown) wrote:
> 
> > >As for booting -- my guess is that with a new laptop, you won't have 
> > >any problems; the new BIOSes can handle large disks, and I think that
> > >
> > >NetBSD can as well at this point.
> > 
> > note that the laptop isn't *all* that new...just the drive is.  the
> > laptop is two years old.
> 
> A two years old laptop _is_ new. LBA wasn't invented yesterday. Even my
> old PC from 1996 does it. But AFAIK and what I've read in usenet you
> cannot boot NetBSD from a sector beyond the 1024th.

This is false. NetBSD supports int13 extention since 1998/10/15 (in term of
release this is NetBSD 1.4)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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