> >I think that the moral of the story is that if you try to install
> >NetBSD on a large disk you will see some truly hideous things that
> >should not be exposed to the light of day.
> 
> That may depend on your BIOS -- it may not be able to handle disks 
> larger than that.  I had to upgrade the BIOS on one of my NetBSD 
> machines in order to make it believe in a 10G disk.

Yes it can depend on the BIOS, and certainly in my case it was a lousy
choice of geometry numbers on the BIOS' part.

However the bug remains: sysinst should not write an MBR whose "linear"
partition numbers and C/H/S numbers are inconsistent, period. Especially
since 'fdisk -u' corrected the problem, I really don't see how you can
blame the BIOS for this one.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ best.com