seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) writes:
> 1.  On systems with screwy geometry, I could make a small NetBSD partition
> in the first 1024 cylinders of a disk's geometry, for /, so I could boot - and
> then mount partitions from elsewhere on the disk.

you can do that now. Aim BSD partitions of the disk label for the
early MBR partition at chunks of the later MBR partitions. It will
work.

Long term, we need "slices" or something similar.