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On 04/15/13 18:09, Sean Bruno wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 15:58 -0400, George Mitchell wrote:
>> that does not respond to key presses on the keyboard.  It times out
>> and
>> continues loading anyway.  At this stage, I am always presented with a
>> manual mountroot: prompt, and I have to type "ufs:/dev/ada0s1a" to get
>> any further.
>>
>>
>
> Hrm ... is /dev/ada0s1a the default root disk in your /etc/fstab ?
>
> Sean
>
Yes:

# Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump 
Pass#
/dev/ada0s1b            none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/ada0s1a            /               ufs     rw              1       1
[...]