Subject: Re: installboot question
To: None <wojtek@wojtek.from.pl>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/23/2001 16:18:28
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 11:23:18PM +0100, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> why partition on which i do installboot MUST begin in first sector of
> netbsd fdisk partition? (or 0 if no fdisk partitions made)
> 
> installboot manpage says only first stage loader is in disklabel area
> which THEN loads the rest

In a sense, where else would you want to put it and why? The bootblocks will
have to find it somewhere, so beginning of partition sounds like a good
place to look..

Patrick