On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 01:16:38PM -0700, radhika sinha wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to NetBSD. I was trying to install NetBSD
> version1.5.2 from the CD. My machine has two hard
> drives with Freebsd installed on wd0. I have installed
> NetBSD on the second drive wd1. The installation seems
> to be successful, but I periodically see the following
> warning when I boot up NetBSD:
> 
> Warning: Old BSD partition ID
> 
> I checked the sysid on both the disks using fdisk. On
> the disk with FreeBSD it is 165 and on the second disk
> with NetBSD it is 169, I think these are the correct
> values. It would be great if someone could help me
> figure out the problem and get rid of the warning.

This message is normal, when you have a FreeBSD disk. older NetBSD versions
used the same (165) ID. 
I think this message will go away if you rebuild a kernel without
options COMPAT_386BSD_MBRPART
But this message is harmless.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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