On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 06:38:57PM +0100, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> > > why partition on which i do installboot MUST begin in first sector of
> > > netbsd fdisk partition? (or 0 if no fdisk partitions made)
> > > 
> > > installboot manpage says only first stage loader is in disklabel area
> > > which THEN loads the rest
> > 
> > In a sense, where else would you want to put it and why? The bootblocks will
> > have to find it somewhere, so beginning of partition sounds like a good
> > place to look..

This is a known bug in 1.5.  Make the 'a' partition the first partition
on the disk.

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Bill Squier (groo@old-ones.com)                          http://www.netbsd.org

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