In article <199704040127.JAA05520@phivolcs.dost.gov.ph>,
	Sven LUTHER <luther@phivolcs.dost.gov.ph> writes:
> it boots, and when i am prompted for the root device, i follow the install
> manual, 

No, you probably didn't.

> and get only the folowwing message :
> panic : can't find root parttion ( or something similar )
> and then it dumps.

You entered "sd0" instead of "sd0*" - under the assumption that NetBSD is
on the first harddisk.

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