>> 	i believe life would be easier for multi-BSD os people if 
>> netbsd choose a new fdisk ID number to use.   for example, the openbsd
>> i386 boot process first looks for a "166" partition, and if it can't 
>> find a 166 fdisk partition then it falls back to 165 (for backwards
>> compat.)
>
>Is there a registry of these things, or at least a list of which ones
>are unused these days?

it's probably not iana.  :)

i'd always assumed that people just picked one that they were
relatively sure wasn't being used yet, hence the "sparseness" one you
get above 0x80 in the list in the netbsd fdisk.  how about 0xfb?

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