no available disks?

It occurred to me that Chris Kantarjiev wrote in
gmane.os.netbsd.ports.x86-64:
> The 3.99.8 system knows the names of the chipsets, but
the daily build iso 
> doesn't - even though the chipsets seem to be the same
codes.

That's just a cosmetic thing. These names reside in the
kernel, and result
in large tables. For a normal system this isn't that much
of an issue, 
but in case of a installation kernel this space be put to
better use.

Martijn van Buul wrote:
> It occurred to me that Chris Kantarjiev wrote in
gmane.os.netbsd.ports.x86-64:
> 
>>The 3.99.8 system knows the names of the chipsets,
but the daily build iso 
>>doesn't - even though the chipsets seem to be the
same codes.
> 
> 
> That's just a cosmetic thing. These names reside in
the kernel, and result
> in large tables. For a normal system this isn't that
much of an issue, 
> but in case of a installation kernel this space be put
to better use.

I follow your logic, but I'm not entirely convinced, since
the installation 
kernel *does* know and print the name of, say, the IDE
controller.

Since the kernel isn't finding the disks, I'm suspicious
that this is a 
symptom/clue...