Subject: Re: Booting sd0 (disk geometry versus bios geometry)
To: Urban Boquist <boquist@cs.chalmers.se>
From: Heiko W.Rupp <hwr@pilhuhn.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/10/1998 13:47:10
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 12:45:19PM +0200, Urban Boquist wrote:
> No, that is not true. At least not if you are talking about the need
> to create a small DOS partition even on a NetBSD only disk. This saved

Yes, but I don't need DOS. Don't even have DOS.

> me just the other day. (Does sysinst do this by default nowadays?)

Don't think. But you can add a DOS partition by hand at sysinst level.

> The problem is that some "modern" BIOSes refuse to boot a disk without
> an "approved" partition table.

Ok, but then for those without "modern" BIOSes, allow then to skip
this.

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