In message <Pine.WNT.4.30.0012261502480.-92623-100000@toddvier> Todd Vierling writes:
: NetBSD/arc has no CD-ROM bootloader as yet.

Are you sure?  NetBSd/arc is like OpenBSD/arc in that you just run the 
kernel as the boot loader...  This can either be with the run a
command option of your BIOS, or by setting up environment
variables and doing it that way.

Warner