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> If you run adjkerntz -a it fiddles the CMOS RTC clock and possibly the
> "century" byte I think.  If your BIOS uses a checksum on the RTC and
> adjkerntz doesn't know about it, your BIOS will think the contents is
> trashed.
> 
> Try booting to single user and shut down immediately, does it still
> happen then ?

tricky, im using a serial console, and after the F1 for Freebsd, 
the screen goes wild till the actual boot starts, so i can't get it to boot
single user, but i'll try the loader.conf route,

if i shutdown, power cycle, and boot, all is ok, does that count?

danny