On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:47:49PM +0300, Alexander Bubnov wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> When I try to install NetBSD before 1024 cylinder NetBSD can not boot
> itself. Any BSDs, which I try to install (OpenBSD and FreeBSD), can do it
> without problem.
> 
> Below my current NetBSD installation. As you can see 1Gb is not used at all!
> the platform is i386.
> 
> Disk: /dev/rwd0d
> NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
> cylinders: 77542, heads: 16, sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)
> total sectors: 78163247
> 
> BIOS disk geometry:
> cylinders: 1024, heads: 240, sectors/track: 10 (2400 sectors/cylinder)
> total sectors: 78163247
> 
> Partition table:
> 0: NetBSD (sysid 169)
>     start 2457600, size 75705600 (36966 MB, Cyls 1024-32568), Active
> 1: <UNUSED>
> 2: <UNUSED>
> 3: <UNUSED>
> Bootselector disabled.
> 
> Is it correct for NetBSD?

I don't see a reason for it. What exactly did you do in your experiment?

Cheers,

Patrick