Robert Elz wrote:

> NetBSD wants only one "slice" - or more accurately, it doesn't
> much care about slices at all - the DOS label is used only for
> booting and locating the NetBSD label, after that, slices are
> essentially irrelevant.


you don't need any mbr-partitions ("slices") at all, the NetBSD
mbr will set up a fake mbr nevertheless, I think, in case some
sick BIOSes assume they're going to boot some incarnation from
Redmond.  Yet you don't need that dance on non-boot disks of
course.  I don't have any PCish structures on the beginning of
disks that do not have a boot record -- they just have the disklabel
at sector 0 how it's supposed to be and that was it.

--mkb