On Sat, 02 May 1998 04:09:51 PDT Paul Goyette writes
> It was suggested that pfdisk was the solution/answer to both of the
> following two questions.  If so, then I am obviously doing something
> wrong, because it didn't work.  I'll be happy if someone calls me an
> idiot for doing things the way I did, but I'll be even happier if simple
> step-by-step instructions can be provided!  :)
> 
> 
> 1. When I boot my system, it complains about "old BSD partition ID" a
>    few times.  I know this is because I've still got 165 (0xa5) instead
>    of 169 (0xa9), but how do I change it without losing any data?
> 
> I used ``pfdisk 0'' and then changed the definition of partition 2 from
> ``2 165 261 521'' to ``2 169 261 521'' and used the W command to write
> the results.  When I tried booting NetBSD, it told me that there was no
> bootable partition.  I was still able to boot Win-95 from partition 1.  

You also need to install the new bootblocks, since the old ones look for a 
partition with id 165. Run '/usr/mdec/installboot /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym 
<rawdev>',  where <rawdev> is the raw device of the root partition. 
 
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