On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 01:34:39PM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> On Sat, 25 May 2002 @ 7:29pm (+0200), Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> MB> On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 06:22:57AM +0200, Michael Core wrote:
> MB> > atatat@atatdot.net (Andrew Brown) wrote:
> MB> >
> MB> > > >As for booting -- my guess is that with a new laptop, you won't have
> MB> > > >any problems; the new BIOSes can handle large disks, and I think that
> MB> > > >
> MB> > > >NetBSD can as well at this point.
> MB> > >
> MB> > > note that the laptop isn't *all* that new...just the drive is.  the
> MB> > > laptop is two years old.
> MB> >
> MB> > A two years old laptop _is_ new. LBA wasn't invented yesterday. Even my
> MB> > old PC from 1996 does it. But AFAIK and what I've read in usenet you
> MB> > cannot boot NetBSD from a sector beyond the 1024th.
> MB>
> MB> This is false. NetBSD supports int13 extention since 1998/10/15 (in term of
> 
> ...iirc, sysinst still warns you about that.

Yes, because sysinst doesn't know if the BIOS supports it or not.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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