He should also remember that older proms cannot boot off of miniroots
located in regions of the disk over 1GB.  So, if the root partition,
partition A is larger than 1GB, he cannot boot from partition B to get into
the miniroot.  I do not know  of a good work-around at the moment.  Boot
from a second disk perhaps?
-Brian

On Jun 17,  6:09pm, "Erik E. Fair" wrote:
} Subject: Re: Having prom command problems
} At the "ok" prompt:
} 
} 	new
} 	probe-scsi-all
} 
} note the messy path (probably beginning in /iommu ) for your new disk; then
} 
} 	boot <messy-path>/sd@4,1 netbsd -s
} 
} that should get you up in the miniroot. ID#4, partition #1.
} 
} 	Erik <fair@clock.org>
} 
} 
} 
>-- End of excerpt from "Erik E. Fair"