> I've seen these problems with other people too, and it seems to
> happen for people with SCSI controllers (most notable adaptec,
> but that could be a coincidence). It maybe a geometry problem.

Yes, I had similar problems with my adaptec. Booting with grub did the trick 
though. So I guess if grub manages to find the kernel on the root fs the bios 
calls to the disk is usable. My guess is a bad boot block install in netbsd...

/Anders