> still doesn't help me.  i've got a 12 gig disk with 1.5 for win98, 3.5
> for freebsd, and the remainder for netbsd (with / in the first 200
> megs of that partition), but win98 is the only thing that osbs or the
> netbsd boot blocks will boot.  the freebsd boot mangler used to be
> able to boot itself, but never netbsd.
> 
> i can still boot either bsd if i put in the corresponding install
> floppy and use those boot blocks...
> 
So you can boot netbsd from the first floppy disk by typing boot wd0a:netbsd ?
If so, i am starting to think you misconfigured the bootmanager. However, perhaps an other problem is playing here, i aint sure. So you filled in that partition 0 is win98, partition 1 is freebsd and 2 is netbsd during fdisk -B /dev/rwd0d ? If this is written fine, you'll get those three options during booting, but now you say that the netbsd bootmanager can only boot win98? Especially cause the netbsd slice start in the first 8 gig, but as mentioned by Wolfgang, even that aint a problem so i lost it for a while where things are going wrong.
Perhaps Wolfgang or someone else knows what is going on, or you will have to be more detailed. Bye,

Mipam.