Boot Loader Broken?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21 at gmail.com> writes:

> I recently upgraded from 6.3-PRERELEASE to 7.0-PRERELEASE. I had some
> problem with the ports, but I got that taken care of.
>
> Now I'm having another very odd problem.
>
> I originally noticed something odd when I tried to shutdown from
> multiuser mode into single user mode. I ran "shutdown now" as root in
> multiuser. It said it was shutting down, etc. But then, it gave me the
> normal multiuser login prompt. So then I tried rebooting completely,
> and that's where the big error came up:

Note that rebooting completely *is* the normal procedure, so that you
know your kernel boots before you overwrite anything that depends on it.

>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
> (root at Mercury, Tue Jan 8 14:22:21 EST 2008)
>> \
> \: unknown command
> -
> /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x29e868 data=0x2db8c+0x23814
> syms=[0x4+0x34c10+0x4+0x43ef1]
> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for a command prompt.
> Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] in 4 seconds ...
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Why it trying to run the command "\" ? Right before I did this, I
> rebuilt world, including the kernel. I installed the new kernel, and
> was moving down to single user to install world.
>
> Is my bootloader corrupt somehow?

I would suspect something more like some extra text in loader.conf.