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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!emory!ogicse!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!tplinfm From: barrett@lucy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [NetBSD] installing with DOS Message-ID: <1uj20t$8bh@lucy.ee.und.ac.za> Date: 3 Jun 93 00:19:41 GMT Article-I.D.: lucy.1uj20t$8bh References: <C7vu5z.EtM@cvt.stuba.cs> <1ud4r6$l80@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> <1993Jun1.214740.8964@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1993Jun2.095924.68884@cc.usu.edu> Organization: Elec. Eng., Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa Lines: 11 NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.ee.und.ac.za In article <1993Jun2.095924.68884@cc.usu.edu>, ivie@cc.usu.edu 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_. He meant the 1024 cylinder boundary. The BIOS disk access routines use a 10-bit cylinder number. --apb (Alan Barrett)