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From: ivie@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [NetBSD] installing with DOS
Message-ID: <1993Jun2.095924.68884@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 2 Jun 93 09:59:24 MDT
References: <C7vu5z.EtM@cvt.stuba.cs> <1ud4r6$l80@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> <1993Jun1.214740.8964@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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In article <1993Jun1.214740.8964@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
> 
> *NO* parttitions accessed by the DOS boot track are allowed to start past
> the one meg point... *PERIOD*.  Your 386BSD/NetBSD partition *MUST* start
> before the 1M boundry if it is to allow BIOS to load the second stage boot.

What 1M boundary? We're talking _disk_ here, not _memory_.

Roger "Confused" Ivie
ivie@cc.usu.edu