| It is conceivable that if you re-disklabel (and re-installboot?) with 
| *exactly* the same parameters that you could recover your original 
| NetBSD partitions.

  That's what I did. Luckily, I had my cheat sheet with the
partitioning data still around, so I could reconstruct the
disklabel. My data is still here :)

  Does that mean one should never ever put the netbsd partition
before the MacOS HFS partitions?

	mjl