der Mouse writes:
> > I note also you put swap at the beginning of the NetBSD partition;
> 
> I'm sure I've seen, somewhere, a requirement that the boot partition
> begin at the same point as the MBR NetBSD partition.  I can't recall
> exactly where (and didn't find it in a quick search), but maybe is a
> requirement like that still in effect?

PR #12508 might be relevant.
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Andreas Gustafsson, gson@gson.org