I have downloaded another miniroot from 7-12-2002.  I have
observed similar behavior.  The kernel on the miniroot fs 
crash while looking for init.

I think I am going to try another machine.  I have three Sun 3/80s.
The was the first one to boot up to the > prompt.

Below is capture that includes the writing of the miniroot to
the swap partition.  

-scotts

ssh: ls /mnt
D:0755  2    0    0     512 Jul 13 06:54 .
D:0755  8    0    0     512 Jul 10 04:27 ..
F:0644  1    0    0 1214168 Jul 10 20:06 netbsd.1.6
L:0755  1    0    0      10 Jul 12 17:36 netbsd -> netbsd.1.6
F:0444  1    0    0 12582912 Jul 11 17:14 miniroot.fs.1.6
F:0444  1    0    0 12582912 Jul 12 06:10 miniroot.1.5.2
F:0444  1    0    0 1303418 Jul 12 06:30 netbsd.1.5.2
F:0644  1    0    0 12582912 Jul 13 06:54 miniroot.1.6.20020712
ssh: dd if=/mnt/miniroot.1.6.20020712 of=/dev/rsd0b bs=8k
1536+0 records in
1536+0 records out
12582912 bytes transferred in 68.810 secs (182864 bytes/sec)
ssh: halt
Jul 10 04:40:15 halt: halted by root
 signal 15
ssh: syncing disks... done
halted.

Abort at 0xF8093A32.
>b sd(0,0,1) -s
Boot: sd(0,0,1) -s
>> NetBSD/sun3 ufsboot [1.11]
ufsboot: trying netbsd
open netbsd: No such file or directory
ufsboot: trying netbsd.old
open netbsd.old: No such file or directory
ufsboot: trying netbsd.sun3x
846036+129716 [77968+54947]=0x10ec80
starting program at 0x4000
console is ttya
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.6_BETA4 (INSTALL3X) #0: Sat Jul 13 04:47:11 UTC 2002
    autobuild@tgm.daemon.org:/autobuild/sun3/OBJ/autobuild/src/sys/arch/sun3/compile/INSTALL3X
Model: sun3x 80
fpu: mc68882
total memory = 16384 KB
avail memory = 14032 KB
using 115 buffers containing 920 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
obio0 at mainbus0
iommu0 at obio0 addr 0x60000000
memerr0 at obio0 addr 0x61001000 ipl 7: (Parity memory)
intreg0 at obio0 addr 0x61001400
zsc0 at obio0 addr 0x62000000 ipl 6: (softpri 3)
kbd0 at zsc0 channel 0: baud rate 1200
zsc0:  channel 1 not configured
zsc1 at obio0 addr 0x62002000 ipl 6: (softpri 3)
zstty0 at zsc1 channel 0 (console i/o)
zstty1 at zsc1 channel 1
eeprom0 at obio0 addr 0x64000000
clock0 at obio0 addr 0x640007f8 ipl 5
le0 at obio0 addr 0x65002000 ipl 3: address 08:00:20:b7:24:8d
le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
dma0 at obio0 addr 0x66001000 ipl 2: rev 0
esp0 at obio0 addr 0x66000000 ipl 2: ESP100, 20MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at esp0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
fdc0 at obio0 addr 0x6e000000 ipl 6 vect 0x40: (softpri 2) chip 82072
enabling interrupts
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <HP, 1.050 GB #A, 9842> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 1001 MB, 2700 cyl, 9 head, 84 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2051460 sectors
sd0: async, 8-bit transfers
boot device: sd0b
root on sd0b dumps on sd0b
WARNING: bad date in battery clock -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
root file system type: ffs
exec /sbin/init: error 8
init: not found
panic: no init
syncing disks... done

dumping to dev 7,1 offset 32656
dump succeeded
rebooting...
Boot: sd(0,0,0)

Illegal Instruction = 0x39C339C3 at 0x00004000.

-- 
Scott Smallie 	        	          
Systems Engineer