Subject: Re: Newbie question
To: Joel Reicher <void@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/02/1997 16:04:25
The i386 port uses a two part bootstrap now. The first part loads
the second using the BIOS, so its advisable to keep all of
partition 'a' within the first 1024 cylinders.
David/abs
-- "Its hard to say it... I hate to say it... but its probably me..." --
On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Joel Reicher wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, David Brownlee wrote:
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> > The boot partition must reside within the BIOS addressable area
> > of the disk, but NetBSD should be able to access >540MB as other
> > partitions.
>
> Is this completely correct? I thought only the bootstrap code needed to
> lie within the BIOS addressable space of the disk, and that it didn't
> matter if the rest of the boot partition extended beyond it.
>
> - Joel Reicher
>