On Thu, 26 Oct 95 15:25:47 GMT  richard.ellis@kpmg.co.uk wrote:
>      The installation loops continuosly displaying this error. The disk 
>      geometry (according to the bios) is 528 cyls 64 heads 63 sectors. On 
>      bootup netbsd sees it as 2112/16/63 I have tried using both geometries 
>       for the installation but get the same result.

While I have a had a a problem installing on a >1Gb disk recently myself
I'm starting to see a pattern here.  All of the disks have a 
natural geo of X CYL 16 HD 63 SPT and BIOS geo of Y CYL 64 HD 63 SPT.

Has anyone out there gotten NetBSD to install on such a disk?  There
seems to be quite a few of us with failures on this type of IDE disk...