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Subject: Re: Problems Booting in Normal Mode
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Matt Juszczak <matt@atopia.net> writes:

> Having probs booting since I had a power surge of sorts.
> 
> In normal mode, the machine halts at:
> 
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> 
> Single user mode, the same occurs.

Have you tried booting a fixit disk and doing an fsck from there?