I've fixed this now, the problem was I had not populated /dev, I'd
blithely assumed this was done by one of the tarballs.

Now I can boot and have installed kernel source and built a GENERIC
kernel. This boots, but prompts me for the root device during the boot.
Obviously it would be nice if it didn't do this. I'm suspicious of the
following line in the kernel config file:

# Note that this configuration is unlikely to work, yet...
config          gennetbsd       swap generic

and the corresponding lines in NEWCONF:

# Note that this configuration is unlikely to work, yet...
config          netbsd root on rz0a swap on rz0b and rz1b dumps on rz0b
config          rz1netbsd root on rz1a swap on rz0b and rz1b dumps on rz0b
#config         gennetbsd       swap generic

>From past experience with SunOS, I assume that this line is trying to tell
the kernel where it's root and swap etc are, I was just a bit wary of the
warning.

Can anyone point me at a good source of documentation for kernel config in
NetBSD? What is the difference between GENERIC and NEWCONF? Diff
doesn't show a big difference between them... 

Some docs on the flags I can pass to the kernel at boot-time would
be useful too, so far it seems to behave a bit like Ultrix, ie no args ->
single-user, '-a' gives multi-user....

Any help is much appreciated, thanks,

Simon
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