> 
> Another thing that is required that may not be apparent.  The NetBSD 
> Partition "a" MUST start at the beginning of the NetBSD MBR partition.  
> If you edit your disklabel from sysinst to make it some other way, you 
> will not get an installation for which the BIOS can boot the kernel 
> from the hard disk.

Don't forget that it must also end before the 1024th cylinder, otherwise
most BIOSes may have trouble loading the kernel.


-- 
Dave Burgess                   Network Engineer - Nebraska On-Ramp, Inc.
*bsd FAQ Maintainer / SysAdmin for the NetBSD system in my spare bedroom
"Just because something is stupid doesn't mean there isn't someone that 
doesn't want to do it...."