Stupid BIOS Tricks

[Stephane I Matis <petergun@coffeehaus.com>]

Hello folks, hope you can help.

I have an ancient but handy Toshiba T3400CT laptop, with a 520 MB drive and
brain-dead bios. To complicate matters, the floppy drive suffers from another
brain-damage, one that cost Toshiba a huge sume, but I digress.

So, being adventures, I have attempted to install OBSD 2.8 ... many times
today. Basic probelm stems from the BIOS translation or lack of. Once
OpenBSD is running, liek during install, the whole thing is fine.

1) Can I boot the kernel from a FAT partition ? Old manpage, from 2.7, 
   describes boot.com.  Is suspect it was depricated.

2) Can I install OpenBSD on two partitions in the 'fdisk' sense ? I would
   thus install the very minor boot area in section understood by the 
   BIOS, about 13 MB. 

3) Can I install inside a Ontrack or equivalent LBA disk "hypnotiser" ?

Any leads would be appreciated ... I have tried pretty much everything
else, including os-bs, xosl, ranishboot, etc ... I need to "fake" LBA...

Grub floppy doesn't boot :( due to the stupid floppy controller bug in
these Toshiba's.

Thanks,

Stephane