> People typically do that because the NetBSD a partition has to be
> below BIOS cylinder 1024 because the bios is used during boot.

This problem is vanishing slowly. New BIOSs have the int 0x13 LBA
extensions integrated. I made a first try to teach the new biosboot
bootblocks to check for LBA and use it if possible, but haven't finished
debugging it yet. Space becomes tough in the first sector with this
extension and you always have to reboot to try. Not an ideal debugging
environment...


Martin