David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:

>> > It should add all the free space in the netbsd mbr partition to one
>> > of the filesystems.  This will be "/" unless you create "/usr" or
>> > request it be added elsewhere (or I got the code wrong).
>> 
>> I've reinstalled NetBSD 2.0 a dozen of times or so since Friday trying
>> to fix the boot problem I reported this weekend. Most of the time, the
>> install assigned about two hundred MB to / and the rest to /usr,
>> whitout any intervention by my part. Sometimes it assigned all the
>> space to /, though. A bit puzzling.
>
> It depends on whether all of the netbsd partition can be read by the
> bios.  If the bios doesn't support LBA reads, and the disk is large,
> then sysinst will create a /usr partition.

Yes, this may be the cause. I experimented installing after changing
the HD mode on the BIOS parameters: LBA <-> Large <-> 'Normal'

[snip]

-- 
Oscar