Dave Huang wrote:

>On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Dave Huang wrote:
>> helpful if you could post a copy of the entire boot messages (use serial
>> boot echo, and a null modem cable hooked up to another machine).
>
>And if you can't conveniently do that, an exact transcription of the
>last few lines (I guess start two or three lines before the error 79
>message) would be helpful.

It might be useful to see the partition layout on the disk too.  As I 
recall the kernel only searches for NetBSD partitions within the first 16 
canidates on disk.