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In message <199712131922.LAA25291@newhouse.bayarea.net>you write:
>     7 partitions:
>     #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>     a:   202545       63      4.2BSD      512  4096    16   # (Cyl.    0*- 200*)
>     b:  1033200   202608        swap                        # (Cyl.  201 - 1225)
>     c:  6185088        0      unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 6135)
>     d:  6185088        0      unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 6135)

Can only guess on that.
What does fdisk report on the disk?
My guess is there is a difference between were the BIOS thinks the partition 
ist starting and what the bootloader thinks.  You should try to start the 
a-partition at offset 0, if at all possible.  It looks like BIOS thinks, the 
a-partition starts at 0, because the NetBSD partition (c/d) starts there.

If you send the fdisk output, maybe some guru can tell if the NetBSD 
bootloader has a problem booting from a NetBSD-partition not at the beginning 
of the NetBSD part of the disk.

Gruesse
       Oskar

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