Peter Seebach wrote:
... 
> 1.  On systems with screwy geometry, I could make a small NetBSD partition
> in the first 1024 cylinders of a disk's geometry, for /, so I could boot - and
> then mount partitions from elsewhere on the disk.
...

My understanding was that the partition table only had to have /. As long as
the partitions elsewhere on the disk are defined correctly in the disklabel,
you should be able to mount them - they don't have to appear in the partition
table.

Cheers,

Patrick