On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, P Kern wrote:

> Hello.  What am I missing?
> I'm trying to get 1.1 running on a 3/280 but not having much luck.
> [ ... ]
> 	panic: cannot mount root
> 
> Where'd I go wrong?  Should I try something else?
> Thanks in advance. Paul Kern.

You may need to write a disk label using the SunOS 'format' command.  
NetBSD uses SunOS style partition information stored in the 0th sector of 
the drive.  It may be that the kernel cannot find a valid label for the 
'a' partition.

-J