Re: SCA SCSI drives for Ultra 1

[Julian Coleman <jdc%coris.org.uk@localhost>]

Hi,

>                       You have to keep the boot slice under a certain
> size (ISTR it was 128GB), but that's about it.

See `man boot` on a current or netbsd-5 system:

  The OBP on Ultra 1 and Ultra 2 machines can only boot from the first
  4Gb of the disk.

Technically, only the bootloader and kernel need to be in the first 4Gb,
but this is easiest to achieve if the whole partition is 4Gb or less ;-)

Thanks,

J

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