Subject: LBA48 clean boot sequence? To: None <> From: Wolfgang
S. Rupprecht <> List: current-users Date: 11/27/2004 12:04:04 If
the bios is LBA48 aware, will netbsd-current/i386 (or /amd64 for
that matter) be able to boot reliably from a >137G partition?
I've stopped screwing around with the usual eight or so
partitions and simply put everything in one honking large
partition.[1] So far my netbsd disk is only 80 Gigs and things
are working well.  I wonder if I could safely upgrade to a 200G
disk set up the same way or if I would start seeing bootstrap
problems depending on where the blocks needed for booting fell
on the disk.  (What I've noticed is that some other BSD's failed
outright when I built 200G disks like this.  Something early on
in the bootstrap   1 Actually one ffs partition and one swap
partition following it.   Having separate /, /var, /var/obj,
/usr, /u, /v, /w, required   periodic tar everything and
repartition fests.  I finally decided   that was an awful lot of
relatively risky work for ver