> The problem is that there is an apple ufs disklabel
> at offset 7k of the partition.  This is probably leftover
> from having had a previous apple ufs filesystem there
> without having had it zeroed when you installed netbsd.
> 
> To verify this, you can
>   hexdump -Cv -s 7168 -n 1024 /dev/rwd0a
> and see if that starts with 'LABL' in the first 4 bytes.
> 
> The fix is to
>   dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0a bs=512 count=2 seek=14
> 
> Which will blow away the apple disklabel and allow
> NetBSD to use its filesystem.

A little scary writing directly to my disk, but that did the trick! 
Boots fine now.

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