Iick !!!! Not like that. If the netbsd people changed their partition
type, there's likely to be a reason behind that.
For OpenBSD, we changed the partition type because disklabel did change
the disk layout slightly (meaning of a, b, c, d partitions) AND because
we increased the number of partitions (seen OPENBSD_MAXPARTITIONS ?):
the change was needed, as it was otherwise impossible to install both
netbsd/freebsd and openbsd on the same machine (net/free was getting
confused).
You have to assume that netbsd did not change its partition type
gratuitously. Find the reason behind the change, check that it does NOT affect
things from the linux point of view (since linux only has to link the
partitions in its partition list --- not have to rely on them for booting).
Otherwise, blindly recognizing 0xa9 as netbsd is likely to break a few disks...
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