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On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 21:13 -0400, Randy Bush wrote:
> i386 running 7.2 as of aug 29
> twe, gmirrored boot partition, zfs universe
> cvsupped 24 hours ago
> new kernel world
> will not boot.  get beastie but stops at first twirly
> 
> can boot old kernel -s, but not new kernel
> 
> can not use old kernel with new world, hangs if i try to /etc/rc.d/zfs
> start

A few questions:  Have you cvsupped to 7-STABLE or 8?  Are you using ZFS
root?  Do you get anything extra with "boot -v"?  Have you tried your
old loader (/boot/loader.old)?

Gavin