In message <E1097IB-00030t-00@quartz.newn.cam.ac.uk>, "Patrick Welche" writes:
>Peter Seebach wrote:
>... 
>> 1.  On systems with screwy geometry, I could make a small NetBSD partition
>> in the first 1024 cylinders of a disk's geometry, for /, so I could boot - a
>nd
>> then mount partitions from elsewhere on the disk.
>...

>My understanding was that the partition table only had to have /. As long as
>the partitions elsewhere on the disk are defined correctly in the disklabel,
>you should be able to mount them - they don't have to appear in the partition
>table.

Oh, that's evil.

But sorta clever.

-s