On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 07:10:58PM -0000, De Zeurkous wrote:
> Haai,
> 
> Considering ...  and the fancy footwork that still seems to be required
> to have multiple slices of NetBSD disklabels to coexist peacefully on
> the same drive,

Largely they can't, I did try it once and it was very confusing and I
very nearly trashed my main filesystem.

On i386 (etc) a disk can have multiple type 169 mbr partitions (so that
the mbr_bootsel code can select between different filesystems), but the
netbsd disklabel always describes the whole disk.  For safe-keeping it
is written to the start of ALL the type 169 mbr partitions, although
the kernel will normally read it from the booted partition.

	David

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