Just to see what happened, I began my root partition a few megabytes
further out than the default location (0 offset).  NetBSD would not
boot.  Is that to be expected?

Jim Nelson


Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> 
> > Anyhow, it's about time I learned to properly plan my
> > disklabel (especially since I can't find the old 'auto
> > defaults for all' option ;-) I have a vague recollection
> > that the root partition has to be within 1024 cylinders.
> no it doesn't
> 
> only partition from where you boot kernel need that.
> you can boot kernel from dos partition (dosboot.com)
> when netbsd kernel is booted whole disk is accessible and there is no
> limit