from Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>:

> you don't need any mbr-partitions ("slices") at all, the NetBSD
> mbr will set up a fake mbr nevertheless, I think, in case some
> sick BIOSes assume they're going to boot some incarnation from
> Redmond.  Yet you don't need that dance on non-boot disks of
> course.  I don't have any PCish structures on the beginning of
> disks that do not have a boot record -- they just have the disklabel
> at sector 0 how it's supposed to be and that was it.

Now I'm curious, could you make a Linux subpartition in there, and an msdos
subpartition, and install DOS and Linux, booting with NetBSD boot selector?
I can't really figure how that would be done for DOS, maybe Linux could see the
Linux subpartition?