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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!bigboy.sbc.com!news.mtholyoke.edu!news.byu.edu!cwis.isu.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Subject: Re: [NetBSD] installing with DOS Message-ID: <1993Jun3.211326.23009@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT) References: <1993Jun1.214740.8964@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1993Jun2.095924.68884@cc.usu.edu> <1993Jun2.205119.995@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 21:13:26 GMT Lines: 16 In article <1993Jun2.205119.995@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >You can't put >BIOS accessed information (like the stage 2 boot from Julians boot blocks >which come with NetBSD, or the NetBSD disklabel) outside of the accessable >range for the BIOS access of the disk. PS: This includes the bad track table, which lives at the end of the disk, so you will have problems with bad144 if you have to use it on a drive after cylinder 1024 if you are using Julian's boot blocks. Terry Lambert terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.