I just tried to use the whole disk installing NetBSD.

As you know NetBSD installer offers:

Which would you like to do?

a: Edit the MBR partition table
b: Use the entire disk

I choose point b. Although, I tried use point a and installed NetBSD as the
first partition and result the same.
Result:

Boot failed (errno 2): Can't open /boot.


2007/2/27, Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>:
>
> 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