In article <199801202204.QAA19884@fargo.smartnap.com>,
	mparson@smartnap.com writes:
> /dev/sd1a would be the first partition on the second drive, nothing dictates
> that the first partition of a drive has to be a 'root' (/) partition.

But NetBSD might detect is as root partition a try to boot from it. At
least older version of NetBSD behaved that way.

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/