>
> Yes, as long as the your root partition is in the 1st 500MB, and smaller than
root partition can be anywhere just kernel must be copied to small
"boot" partition anywhere in 504MB

> that, you should be ok.  And even then, I believe only the initial boot stuff
> has to be within
> that 1st 500MB or so...  you could have a 1Gig root and it should still boot
> as long
> as the boot stuff is within the 1st 500MB.
>
> Once NetBSD is booted, it shouldn't matter, because you aren't using the BIOS
> disk drivers anymore.
exactly