Next round, towards a kernel with an embedded ramdisk:
http://www.feyrer.de/Misc/landisk-netbsd-INSTALL+ramdisk.gz

Can you please try this kernel and let me know if it boots into sysinst, 
or how far it gets? Your hyperterminal log helped a lot!

FWIW I tried booting this kernel in gxemul ("gxemul -E landisk 
netbsd-INSTALL+ramdisk") but it hung pretty early - not sure if that's due 
to gxemul, but I'll pretend it does:

 	...
 	wdc0 at obio0 port 0x14000000-0x1400000f irq 10
 	atabus0 at wdc0 channel 0
 	btn0 at obio0 irq 12: USL-5P Button
 	pwrsw0 at obio0 irq 11: Power Switch
 	Kernelized RAIDframe activated
 	md0: internal 5000 KB image area
 	<hang>


  - Hubert