> Why now NetBSD can has the root partition only on beginning of a slice? > For instance: > "boot hd0e:netbsd" can't find the root if the hd0e is inside a slice and > hasn't a dos partition twin.
Which NetBSD version? NetBSD x86 6.1.4 can't handle it and you need the following change (which I'm using for my custom 6.1.4 amd64 kernel): http://www.nerv.org/~ryo/netbsd/netbsd/?q=id:20130428T143256Z.b623c8487cf2235d829e0daff70cca59b1b79df8 6.2 will include this fix. --- Izumi Tsutsui