Frederick Bruckman writes:
> 
> You only need the boot blocks on floppy, not the whole kernel. Any
> install floppy will do fine. Hit the space bar while it's counting
> down, and type "boot wd0a". That'll get you past your catch-22, so you
> can build a kernel that'll fit on a floppy (for an unattended boot).

No, it is a catch22 from his perspective.  The bootblocks use the BIOS
to access the drive.  The BIOS is not aware of his drive, so it will not
work.

> Alternatively, since you said you managed to boot from another drive,
> try making the 45G the second master. NetBSD can use drives that
> aren't in the BIOS, unlike linux.

Or boot the install media (either CDROM or floppies), interrupt the
boot and type 'boot -as', then tell the kernelt that 'wd0a' is the
root filesystem.

-Andrew