According to Rick Byers:
>
>Our news server's hard drive recently crashed, so I replaced it with an
>identical model (ST31200N), using the exact same disklabel.  I reinstalled
>NetBSD 1.2 on the new drive using the INSTALLADP kernel (although I did
>compile a couple of my own with the same results).  It boots up fine to
>the point where it says "changing root device to sd0a", and then stops.  
>

You _do_ have a swap partition (labelled as such) on the new disk
don't you?  I had my netbsd hang in this manner when I was using a
custom kernel that was configured for swap on a disk that I removed
from the system - the result was just as you have described.

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