loader(8) question

[Oliver Neubauer]

Hello,

I just recently upgraded from 4.3 to 4.9 RELEASE by doing a clean install.
While I am able to boot the system fully, I have noticed the error 
message "no /boot/loader" upon inital boot, with: "loader(8) metadata 
missing" showing up a bit later one during the boot process.

I don't know about the second message, but I can definitely say that 
/boot/loader exists with rx permission for all.....I haven't changed a 
thing since installing.

I've come across quite a few questions about this in forums and whatnot, 
but very little in the way of answers. Can anyone shed some light?

dmesg follows

Thanks!
o

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FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 19 12:12:57 EST 2003
    root at smpbsd:/usr/src/sys/compile/SMPBSD
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: Pentium Pro (199.43-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x619  Stepping = 9
  
Features=0xfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV>
real memory  = 234881024 (229376K bytes)
avail memory = 225148928 (219872K bytes)
Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0
IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard: 2 CPUs
 cpu0 (BSP): apic id:  1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
 cpu1 (AP):  apic id:  0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
 io0 (APIC): apic id:  2, version: 0x00170011, at 0xfec00000
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
md0: Malloc disk
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
IOAPIC #0 intpin 19 -> irq 2
IOAPIC #0 intpin 18 -> irq 10
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
isab0: <Intel 82371SB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel PIIX3 ATA controller> port 0xe800-0xe80f at device 1.1 
on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
ahc0: <Adaptec 2930CU SCSI adapter> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 
0xf9000000-0xf9000fff irq 2 at device 9.0 on pci0
aic7860: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs
pci0: <Cirrus Logic GD5446 SVGA controller> at 10.0 irq 10
vr0: <VIA VT3043 Rhine I 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd800-0xd87f mem 
0xf8800000-0xf880007f irq 2 at device 13.0 on pci0
vr0: Ethernet address: 00:50:ba:a1:a7:5b
miibus0: <MII bus> on vr0
amphy0: <Am79C873 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
amphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xcc7ff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery
APIC_IO: routing 8254 via IOAPIC #0 intpin 2
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
ad0: 3098MB <IBM-DAQA-33240> [6296/16/63] at ata0-master WDMA2
Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
Mounting root from ufs:ad0s1a
da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
da0: <QUANTUM XP34301 1070> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da0: 4106MB (8410200 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 523C)