> evax# vnconfig /dev/vnd0c boot.fs
> vnconfig: /dev/vnd0c: VNDIOCSET: Invalid argument

Looking over the code for returns of EINVAL, I note that you didn't
specify a geometry.  This causes the vnd driver (sys/dev/vnd.c) to use
a standard fictitious geometry, and the code says

                        /*
                         * Size must be at least 2048 DEV_BSIZE blocks
                         * (1M) in order to use this geometry.
                         */
                        if (vnd->sc_size < (32 * 64)) {
                                vndunlock(vnd);
                                return (EINVAL);
                        }

Is boot.fs at least a megabyte?  The output from "file" implies the
filesystem is smaller than that ("number of blocks 2000"), so boot.fs
itself likely is too.

I know I ran into that problem once.

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