I recently download from kernel source from cvs server (08-03-00)
made a new configuration file to support IDE on isa and built a new
kernel..

The new kernel successfully recognizes the western digital hard drive
and I was able to install a new disk label ,make a new filesystem,
mount it and expand out the various sets from 3/3 snapshot...

However when I try to use it as the 'root' filesystem
via 'wd0a' when prompted for file system during
bootup it just hangs....

The output from disklabel wd0 looks like:

type: ESDI
disk: western
label: mips
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 2484
total sectors: 2503872
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
drivedata: 0

4 partitions:
#        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:  2302270        0     4.2BSD     1024  8192    11   # (Cyl.    0 -
2283*)
  b:   201598  2302271       swap                        # (Cyl. 2283*-
2483*)
  c:  2503872        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
2483)
  d:  2503872        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
2483)

After munting via mount /dev/wd0a /mnt
a listing of /mnt look like :
client# mount /dev/wd0a /mnt
client# ls -l /mnt
total 2930
-rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel      915 Mar  4 10:48 .cshrc
-rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel      494 Mar  4 10:48 .profile
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      512 Jan 26  2000 altroot
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      512 Mar  4 06:42 bin
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel      512 Aug  7 14:36 dev
drwxr-xr-x  12 root  wheel     2048 Aug  7 14:52 etc
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      512 Jan 26  2000 home
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      512 Aug  7 14:47 kern
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      512 Jan 26  2000 mnt
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  2967245 Mar  4 12:28 netbsd
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      512 Aug  7 14:47 proc
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      512 Aug  7 14:36 root
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     1536 Mar  4 06:53 sbin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      512 Jan 26  2000 stand
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel       11 Mar  4 10:48 sys -> usr/src/sys
drwxrwxrwt   2 root  wheel      512 Jan 26  2000 tmp
drwxr-xr-x  13 root  wheel      512 Jan 26  2000 usr
drwxr-xr-x  20 root  wheel      512 Jan 26  2000 var
client#


It appears to me as if everything is Normal...any Ideas
as to what I am doing wrong ?