> > AFAIU when you choose "Use whole disk" this means explicitly "Get rid of
> > DOS stuff like MBR and use native UNIX disklabel". And install does
> > exactly this.

No - sysinst doesn't do that.
It creates a single mbr partition that covers (typically) sectors 63 on
and makes that bootable.

> > I usually use this type of installation when i'm not planing to use any
> > other OSes on the same hdd together with NetBSD.

If you remove the mbr and put the pbr bootcode into the mbr (ie have the
root filesystem starting in sector 0) then you generate a disk that
is unbootable on some systems (because the bios validates the mbr)
and may cause problems with odd bios features which are known to use
other parts of track zero.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk