>
> Just to see what happened, I began my root partition a few megabytes
> further out than the default location (0 offset).  NetBSD would not
> boot.  Is that to be expected?
unfortunately yes.

i386 bootloader doesn't work when installed on partition not at beginning
at 0

that's my solution: (partition e is for bootloader ONLY, bootloader itself
can use bios extensions to load within 20GB even with disk set to "NORMAL"
in BIOS"

  a: 38987300  1024000     4.2BSD     1024  8192    98   # (Cyl. 1015*-
39693*)
  b:  1024000      300       swap                        # (Cyl.    0*-
1016*)
  c: 40011300        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
39693*)
  d: 40011300        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
39693*)
  e:      300        0     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0 -
0*)


> Jim Nelson
>
>
> Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> > > Anyhow, it's about time I learned to properly plan my
> > > disklabel (especially since I can't find the old 'auto
> > > defaults for all' option ;-) I have a vague recollection
> > > that the root partition has to be within 1024 cylinders.
> > no it doesn't
> >
> > only partition from where you boot kernel need that.
> > you can boot kernel from dos partition (dosboot.com)
> > when netbsd kernel is booted whole disk is accessible and there is no
> > limit
>

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