>Hello,
>
>I've hit a snag in my installation of NetBSD.  I'm using a PowerBook 180 and
>the most recent snapshots and generic kernel.  I used pdisk to create
>partitions and mkfs to make the filesystems.  The installer seemed to
>install the kernel, the base and etc snapshots fine.  When I run the mini
>shell from the installer it looks like things are where they are supposed to
>be.  The only drive is SCSID=0.  sd0a = root, sd0b = swap, sd0d = HFS_part.
>
>When I run the booter, it goes well until it says:
>
>sd0 (ncrscsi0:0:0:0): SenseErrorCode0x6d
>no file system for sd0 (dev0x400)
>cannot mount root, error = 79
>root device (default_sd0a):
>
>Entering different partitions at this point does no good--sd0a, sd0b,
>sd0c...

After you used the Installer to install the kern.tgz, base.tgz, 
etc.tgz, misc.tgz (I installed the man.tgz files also), did you 
choose "make devices" from the menu?