David Laight wrote:
>  Can you try booting install-tiny?
>  or maybe one of the small, ramdisk-free kernels?
>  (they should get as far as failing to find init)

David, thanks a million - boot-tiny.fs works!

I assume that my problem had nothing to do with port-i386/26007, so I'll 
transform my concern into a feedback:

My EPIA 5000 boots properly NetBSD 3-BETA (26.10.2005).