On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, William O Ferry wrote:

> 	This has always worked for me, too.  pdisk can come in quite
> handy..  =)
> 
> 	A word of warning, however.  I later found that Mac OS X seems
> to really dislike this setup.  I installed the public beta and the
> first boot of my install took a VERY long time.  I later learned it
> had found the NetBSD partition and decided to fsck it.  It took so
> long because it was converting all of the directory something-or-others
> (I don't recall) from 512 to 1024.  Needless to say when I tried to
> boot NetBSD the next time it thought the filesystem was blank.  Many,
> many GB of data lost..  =(
> 
> 	I haven't gotten around to reinstalling on my machine yet, but
> when I do I figure I'll hack the sources to use something other than
> Apple_Unix_SVR4 so that Mac OS X doesn't try to use it...  =)

Ayeeeeee!

Sounds like we do need to make NetBSD_ partition types soon.

Take care,

Bill