At 11:53 AM +1200 4/12/03, David Friggens wrote:
>  > What does disklabel say?
>
># disklabel wd0
># /dev/rwd0c:
>type: ESDI
>disk: IBM-IC25N030ATCS
>  b:   1048576   9937008  Apple UFS      0     0     0   # (Cyl. 9858*- 10898*)
>  e:  20966496  10985584  Apple UFS      0     0     0   # (Cyl. 
>10898*- 31698*)
>
>(I repartitioned and reinstalled, putting the Linux bootstrap partition
>after the others so that the root and swap for NetBSD would come up as
>wd0a and wd0b.)
>
>These translate in the Apple partition table (as shown in Linux) below as:
>wd0a <-> hda2 (NetBSD /)
>wd0b <-> hda3 (UFS swap)
>wd0d <-> hda7 (OSX)
>wd0e <-> hda4 (shared /home partition)
>wd0f <-> hda6 (Linux boot)
>wd0g <-> hda8 (free space from OS X partitioner :-)
>
>root # mac-fdisk /dev/hda
>/dev/hda3            Apple_UFS swap       1048576 @ 9937008  (512.0M)  Unknown
>/dev/hda4            Apple_UFS Home      20966496 @ 10985584 ( 10.0G)  Unknown

I don't know what to say.  I would have thought that NetBSD would do 
what you tell it in /etc/fstab.  Maybe the fact that there *is* a 
*different* partition that comes up as "b" in NetBSD somehow take 
precedence over the fact that you told it to swap on the "e" 
partition?
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