OK I'm using a direct boot from the diskimage.gz written to my Iomega 
ZIP as it is the only way I have of transferring information at this point.
I tried booting directly from the zip disk "boot 5/rz5/netbsd" and booting
from the generic kernel, then moving the boot and netbsd files from the zip
disk file system into / on rz0 (the primary HD). When I boot I try and boot
I get:
boot command: boot -z 5 5/rz0/netbsd -aN

date/rev #'s etc.

Boot: 5/rz0/netbsd
998552+2143968+240196=0x33b00
Starting at 0x80030000


Then I am dumped back into PROM with KN02-AA V5.3t (PC:0x8010f974, SP:
0x8002ff90)

    I downloaded and ungziped netbsd.ecoff, but I have no way of netbooting
currently. The file size of netbsd.ecoff corresponts to what you have
listed. How about diskimage I have 2097152. The px netbsd kernel shows
1183258 and the boot loader 40132.

    Chris

> "Chris Tribo" wrote:
>
>>     OK I downloaded the 1.4px Diskimage and renamed the generic kernel and
>> boot; and moved the the px kernel and boot into / on rz0a. When I try to
>> boot it It starts the first group of numbers with the spinner, then it sais
>> read text and dumps me back to PROM and tried to boot again the same way
>> over and over. Do I need to run the install program instead in this case?
>
> If you're seeing the twiddle you shouldn't need to do anything else.
> What numbers do you get (using generic.gz I'm guessing)?  Just looking
> the kernel, you should see something like:
>
>  >> NetBSD/pmax Secondary Boot, Revision 1.1
>  >> (root@vlad, Fri Jul 16 12:48:23 EST 1999)
>  Boot: 3/rz0/netbsd
>  1477016+60416+350740 [xx+xxxxx+xxxxx]=0xxxxxxx
>  Starting at 0x80030000
>
>  [ preserving xxxxxx bytes of netbsd ELF symbol table ]
>  Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
>      The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>
> and so on...
>
>
> How far does it actually get?  I'd check the length of the file - it
> should be 2216775 bytes ungzipped.  The boot blocks don't have a heap
> of informative error messages if things go wrong...
>
> Simon.