On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 11:41:21AM -0500, BRAD S.  DREISBACH wrote:
> I got it to work by using a linux bootdisk and linux fdisk to
> 
> change the netbsd partition label to the generic bsd label instead of
> NetBSD1.5 as the partition label.
> 
> It complains of "OLD PARTITION TYPE" when booting, but works fine.

I think the main effect of this was to change the geometry in the MBR.
You can now set it back to NetBSD1.5; it's not the partition type which is
important here.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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