> 
> So, basically, if you don't have a BSD partition on your disk, which is the
> case with my system, since all of my DOS/NT crap is on my slow sd0, and 
> NetBSD is on my faster sd1, you're screwed.  The workaround presumably 
> would be to put a small BSD partition on the disk just to hold a disklabel,
> assuming that the disk isn't already entirely eaten up.

No, the kernel generates a fake disklabel for disks with no BSD partitions.
A 'disklabel sd0' should show it to you.

-Andrew
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