i feel like a total noob for asking, but: now that i've installed netbsd
on this indy (long story short, there really is a "generation gap" with
new scsi disks and 10-year old boot proms...) it won't boot.

>> boot
Unable to load scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8)/boot: no such file or directory

where nvram settings are per the install docs:

SystemPartition=scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8)
OSLoadPartition=scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0)
OSLoader=boot
OSLoadOptions=auto
OSLoadFilename=netbsd.ecoff

hinv agrees that there's a disk at target 1, and sysinst installed on it.

installation was via netboot, using diskimage.tgz and friends, hosted on a
netbsd/sparc64 2.1 box with the requisite ip.anonport sysctls. from the looks
of things, either the OSLoader is wrong, or sysinst didn't populate vh on
the disk... but 3.0 has been out long enough that this issue would already
have been across the list, methinks.