On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Mar 1997 15:02:34 -0500 
>  "Christian E. Hopps" <chopps@merit.edu> wrote:
> 
>  > root on sd0b
>  > Preserved 9630 blocks of miniroot leaving 17546 pages of swap
>  > [ hang ] 
> 
> unpopulated /dev is my only guess, here..

If /dev is unpopulated, the kernel will warn you somewhat. I've noticed
this on occasion when I've forgotten to add a /dev/console.

-J