Subject: Re: LBA48 clean boot sequence?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus20041128T193112@dailyplanet.dontspam.wsrcc.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/28/2004 19:35:47
mlelstv@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
> wolfgang+gnus20041127T112847@dailyplanet.dontspam.wsrcc.com ("Wolfgang S. Rupprecht") writes:
> >If the bios is LBA48 aware, will netbsd-current/i386 (or /amd64 for
> >that matter) be able to boot reliably from a >137G partition?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> While I still have unrelated problems with the -current/i386 bootcode
> I can use the 1.6.2-bootloader without problems to start a NetBSD system
> that is located at the end of a 160GB disk.

Thanks.  It sounds like it will do the trick for my purposes too then.

-wolfgang