> ... but NetBSD will now not boot at all. And I just tried to boot 
> FreeBSD, which is on a neighboring primary partition, and it wouldn't 
> boot either. I just ran cfdisk on my hard drive and it says that both 
> the unbootable NetBSD partition /and/ the (former?) FreeBSD partition 
> are of type NetBSD.

Fixing the FreeBSD problem was easy, I'm glad to say. I just had to use 
cfdisk to change the type back to FreeBSD and now it boots okay.

G

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Glenn Becker - burningc@sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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