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main: add note about amd64 now having a "bios" image, too

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.\" $NetBSD: main,v 1.565 2021/10/20 23:23:59 gutteridge Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: main,v 1.566 2021/10/20 23:30:30 gutteridge Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999-2012 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@ -265,6 +265,11 @@ Many commercial and freeware programs are available to burn CD-ROMs.
.Pp
If installing via USB, you must first uncompress the USB image, which
is gzipped.
.if \n[amd64] \{\
Note the \*M architecture has two images, NetBSD-\*V-\*M-install.img and
NetBSD-\*V-\*M-bios-install.img. The latter is intended for older
hardware which is unable to boot using a hybrid MBR and GPT image.
.\}
.Dl $ Ic "gunzip NetBSD-\*V-\*M-install.img.gz"
Next, write the USB image to a USB stick/drive.
Note that this will overwrite any existing data on the device that you