someone pointed out the problem: 	 wasn't booting a kernel floppy.

anyway, at booting it said the following:

NetBSD 1.1 (INSTOOTHER) #0: Fri Nov 24 06:14:06 PST 1995
root@...
CPU: Pentium (GenuineIntel 586-class CPU)
...
isa0 root
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff  irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff  irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37f  irq 7
sea0: board type unknown at addresss 0xf81e6000
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
wd0 at wdc0 drive0: 814MB, 1654 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec <WDC AC2850F
>
wd0: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba addressing
ed0: irq mismatch; kernel configured 9 != board configured 5
ed2: irq mismatch; kernel configured 10 != board configured 9
ie0: unknown AT&T board type code 15
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
pc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x6f irq 1: color
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
root device eisa not configured
pci0 (root): configuration mode 1
pci0 bus 0 device 0: unknown vendor/product: 0x8086/0x122d (class: bridge, subcl
ass: host, revision: 0x02) not configured
pci0 bus 0 device 7: unknown vendor/product: 0x8086/0x122e (class: bridge, subcl
ass: ISA, revision: 0x02) not configured
pci0 bus 0 device 8: unknown vendor/product: 0x100c/0x3206 (class: display, subc
lass: VGA, revision: 0x00) not configured
biomask 4040 netmask 0 ttymask 1a

don't ask me where it got the idea for ie0 from...
for the pci bits, freebsd-2.1.0:

chip0 <Intel 82437 (Triton)> rev 2 on pci0:0
chip1 <Intel 82371 (Triton)> rev 2 on pci0:7
vga0 <VGA-compatible display device> rev 0 int a irq 10 on pci0:8