On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:38:44PM -0800, James Tuman Nelson wrote:
> 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?

You talk about the 'a' partition in disklabel ? Yes, it has to start
at the beggining of the NetBSD partition in the MBR.
However the NetBSD partition can start anywhere on the disk, provided it's
aligned to a cylinder.

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