I'm new to all this myself but here's what worked for me:
at the OF prompt type boot fd:0
This starts the boot process from fd ( which is a floppy drive - and
assuming you copied the boot image onto it using  suntar or rawwrite)

My problem is still unresolved though ( It's a 9500). The boot starts, I
see a bunch of messages and then it restarts before I can read what went
wrong.
I wonder if it's not  happy with my SCSI controller.
Anyone knows where to get the boot.fs image with debugging flags on? So I
can at least see what the damn thing is unhappy about?


Thx, Andy


>> Is there any possibility that I could somehow boot the kernel off of the
>> floppy drive and have it use my root partition (/dev/wd0a) like in
>> Linux/LILO where you go:
>>
>> LILO boot: linux root=/dev/hda3 ro
>>
>> (for example).
>>
>> --fission
>
>Or you just use the 'rdev' program to set the root device in the kernel.
>Is there such a program for NetBSD?
>
>--fission