>    in my previous message sent to netbsd-help@netbsd.org, I reported a 
> problem on disklabeling  a disk on a Sparc 1+:

Unfortunately, labeling disks is a bit less than straightforward
in NetBSD/sparc 1.2. Especially disklabel(8)'s `-r' option can be
confusing or produce inconsistent results.

> 
> Disk:
> 
> sd0 at scsibus0 targ 2 lun 0: <QUANTUM, XP34550S, LXQ1> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
> sd0: 4341MB, 5899 cyl, 10 head, 150 sec, 512 bytes/sec
> 
> This is a fresh disk from vendor. It was put on a Sparc1+ running NetBSD-1.2
> and the following disktab was created by hand:
> 

You didn;t say exactly how you got the label on the disk. I'm not really
sure if `disklabel -r -w' in 1.2 would actually write a label, but if it
did, it would certainly have been a `native' formatted NetBSD label.
This is not recognised by Sun's PROM in case you want to boot off it.

> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>   a:    40960        0    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0 - 27*)
>   b:   262144    40960      swap                        # (Cyl.   27*- 202*)
>   c:  8848500        0   unknown                        # (Cyl.    0 - 5898)
>   f:   409600   303104    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  202*- 475*)
>   g:   262144   712704    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  475*- 649*)
>   h:  7873651   974848    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  649*- 5898*)
> 

In case you want a bootable disk, you _need_ a SunOS-style label, which
also forces you all partitions to begin and end on cylinder boundaries
(which your partitions above aren't).

I suggest you re-label the disk using `disklabel -e sd0', eg. after
net-booting NetBSD or, alternatively, use SunOS to get an initial
label on it.

-pk