> From: Joel Reicher
>
>>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.

i think that, technically, all that actually needs to be in the first
1024 cylinders of the disk is the boot blocks and the bootable kernel.
it doesn't matter if your bootable partition extends beyond this
limit, you just have to make sure that your entire kernel is below it.
and keep in mind that by "boot partition" what is actually meant is
the bsd partition known as sd0a or wd0a, not the entire bsd partition
on the disk.

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