* Peter Bell <peter@bellfamily.org.uk> wrote (20020321 21:16):
> In message <20020321190824.J508-100000@furtle.home>
>           James Holtom <jholtom@furtle.org> wrote:
[snip]
> > I used !HForm (2.52 01 Dec 1999) and allowed it to use longfilenames.
> > HForm says the disc is 16383/16/63 C/H/S, but with LBA revises this to
> > 29795/16/63. I formatted the RISC OS partition as 13315 cylinders.
> > Unfortunately bb_netbsd thinks I've got -3328 cylinders running from 0
> > to -3329... argh... I haven't let it proceed to mash my disc...
> When I run bb_netbsd, I get 0--3977 cylinders.  Since I haven't got
> anything on the drive I didn't care so just went ahead.  bb_netbsd
> completes *very* quickly.

It does not do /that/ much.

> > I am wondering if:
> > a) the disc is too big for it
> I guess that this might be correct.

In a certain sense, yes.

[snip]

> > Can someone tell me what to do / reassure me 'it will just work'...?
> Not me.  I'm just as lost as you!

It just worked here. RISC OS 4, long filenames, 4 GB IDE disc. Same
negative figures in bb_riscbsd.
I cannot guarantee it will work on your disc. And before I did that
experiment, I backed up everything on the RISC OS part of my disc.

> > I note from the archives that there were issues with the bootloader, but
> > I haven't got that far yet, and didn't see anything about disc
> > partitioning :-(
> !BtNetBSD reports 'Bad disklabel' on my disc.

You' ve not run bb_riscbsd ;-)

HTH,
 -S-