On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 11:01:19AM -0000, Andrew Ball wrote:
> 
> You've just answered a question that has been rattling around my head
> for some time, and in the process prompted another: If I am labelling
> (512-byte sectored) disk for use with NetBSD machines, do I need to
> reserve the whole first track, or just the first 1,024 bytes to leave
> room for the disklabel?  (I'm not using fdisk/BIOS partitions).

Neither (well not usually) the filesystem will reserve the first 8k
for the bootcode, and the disklabel sits inside that area.

However for i386 you'd usually want to use an mbr/fdisk formatted disk.
The bios may not boot anything else.

	David

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