On Dec 23,  7:58am, der Mouse wrote:
> Based on what I read here, it sounds as though the Amiga port, unique
> among the NetBSD ports and mildly contrary to BSD tradition, juggles
> the partition numbering at boot time so that (possibly among other
> things) the boot partition is always an `a' partition.  This seems to
> be what started this whole flap off.

 Partially correct. We had to detect - at boot time - the partitions dedicated
to NetBSD. Hence the DOS-Type (!) of the partitions sets the naming 
scheme. One partitions has a special name to be devoted as root-partition,
another for swap, all others as normal BSD-partition.

 No juggling, just a specific naming-scheme, which makes the boot partition
the 'a' partition, but not the 'first' partition.

-- 
Markus Illenseer