The i386 port uses a two part bootstrap now. The first part loads
	the second using the BIOS, so its advisable to keep all of
	partition 'a' within the first 1024 cylinders.


		David/abs

  -- "Its hard to say it... I hate to say it... but its probably me..." --

On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Joel Reicher wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, David Brownlee wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 	The boot partition must reside within the BIOS addressable area
> > 	of the disk, but NetBSD should be able to access >540MB as other
> > 	partitions.
> 
> Is this completely correct? I thought only the bootstrap code needed to 
> lie within the BIOS addressable space of the disk, and that it didn't 
> matter if the rest of the boot partition extended beyond it.
> 
> 	- Joel Reicher
>