I had a very weird problem with the new parallel port device that caused this to occur. It turned out to be speculative probing by the parallel device causing the system to go unstable.
Try disabling the new parallel port device(s)/controllers and see if you can boot again. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message