Subject: Re: overcoming BIOS disk size limitations
To: James Wetterau <jwjr@panix.com>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/19/2003 16:30:39
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:33:23AM -0400, James Wetterau wrote:
.. 
> I've tried dropping out of sysinst and writing a correctly formatted
> disklabel to the disk.

At that point, could you mount the partitions you defined in the disklabel?
My impression was that once the kernel was loaded from within that first
32Gb, NetBSD wouldn't care about the BIOS at all! So, having the correct
100Gb's worth of sectors in /dev/wd0c (and or d for i386), and having the
kernel in /dev/wd0a within the first 32Gb should work?

Cheers,

Patrick