Subject: Re: Newbie question
To: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
From: Joel Reicher <void@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/03/1997 08:17:05
On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, David Brownlee wrote:

> 
> 	The boot partition must reside within the BIOS addressable area
> 	of the disk, but NetBSD should be able to access >540MB as other
> 	partitions.

Is this completely correct? I thought only the bootstrap code needed to 
lie within the BIOS addressable space of the disk, and that it didn't 
matter if the rest of the boot partition extended beyond it.

	- Joel Reicher