I don't remember the details, but this rings a bell.  There's 
something your Linux install does that's fooling NetBSD.  I don't 
remember the details, or even what to search the archives for.

Bob, do you remember this problem?  I thought there was some pdisk 
magic that could fix it.

At 12:45 PM +0200 5/7/03, Siegmund Fuhringer wrote:
>hi!
>
>i've installed netbsd on my powerbook :)
>but i'm unable to boot it :(
>
>
>after entering "boot hd:13,\ofwboot.xcf hd:12/netbsd" the kernel boots,
>but is apparently using the wrong partition as root filesystem:
>
><snip from the output>
>boot device: wd0
>root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
>root filesystem type: ext2fs
>exec /sbin/init: error 20
>.
>.
>.
>panic
></snip from the output>
>
>my partition table:
>  1: Apple_partition_map Apple                 63 @ 1      
>  2:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh             56 @ 64     
>  3:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh             56 @ 120    
>  4:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh             56 @ 176    
>  5:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh             56 @ 232    
>  6:      Apple_FWDriver Macintosh            512 @ 288    
>  7:  Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh            512 @ 800    
>  8:       Apple_Patches Patch Partition      512 @ 1312   
>  9:     Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap           1600 @ 1824   
>10:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Gentoo          25165824 @ 3424     ( 12.0G)
>11:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 LinuxSwap         524288 @ 25169248 (256.0M)
>12:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 netbsd           4922912 @ 25693536 (  2.3G) S0
>RUFS k0  /
>13:           Apple_HFS Apple_UFS_2      8453624 @ 30616448 (  4.0G)
>14:          Apple_Free                        8 @ 39070072
>
>
>partition 12 is ufs not ext2fs... :(
>any hints?
>
>
>lg - sifu
>
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