In message <20030605171803.Z693@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>, David Laight writes:
>On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 04:11:26PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
>> As a result of making a computer a windoze free zone, NetBSD starts at the
>> beginning of a disk with wd1h rather than wd1a. I have installed biosboot.sy
>m
>> at wd1h, but now of course the bootblocks look by default for wd1h:netbsd
>> rather than wd1a:netbsd. Is there a way of teaching them were to look by
>> default?
>
>The netbsd root filesystem has to be at the start of the bios partition
>that you boot from, otherwise things just don't work!

Sigh -- I know.  I tried this layout on my last installation:

	/var
	swap
	/ (including /usr and /home)

It wouldn't boot...


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