I seem to remember this question being addressed before, but I can't
remember by whom (Dr. Bill?) or when, so here goes...

How does the Installer determine what the NetBSD root parition is?
The reason I ask, is that I'm experimenting with both Linux and NetBSD
on my Mac, which naturally involves installing a filesystem for each.
But my Linux root partition comes earlier than my NetBSD root partition,
and is being picked up by the Installer as the root partition it should
try to mount, which of course bombs the Installer.  Also, dunno if the
Booter has this same problem, since it can't get any farther than it
currently does without something installed.

Switching positions of the Linux and BSD partitions (besides being a bit 
of a pain) might create more problems than it solves - Linux booter could
fall into the same trap, plus as far as I can tell, the Linux distro I'm
trying out only supports up to 8 partitions, meaning some additional
re-partitioning in order to keep all my Linux partitions within that limit.

Suggestions appreciated. =)
-jope

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