On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 10:20:19PM -0600, Claudio Leite wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 	I never paid attention on the subject of using big (>540M) hd's on
> older machines without LBA support. I'm getting a 8.4GB EIDE drive for a
> Pentium 60 without any LBA or large disk support in the BIOS. How can I
> boot NetBSD on this box? I don't want to settle for floppy disk boot, even
> though the machine is up most of the time and reboots infrequently. The
> drive will be 100% NetBSD, no other systems will be installed.

Just put a geometry of 1024/16/63 in the BIOS, and be sure to have your boot
partition within the first 540M (so that the kernel can be acceeded by BIOS
routines). NetBSD will then be able to use the whole disk.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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