Boot failure

[Identry]

> If you did not touch the kernel, there is no need to boot GENERIC! Plus you
> have said that this box is running PF, which is not in the GENERIC kernel!
> Personally, I am interested in knowing why the system does not mount the
> root partition on its own when you can do it by hand and it does not
> complain.

Me too.

> Did you by any chance change anyting in /etc/fstab?

No, this has never changed since original install.

> What entries you do have in /etc/sysctl.conf?

None. It is just the default file with some comments, but no uncommented lines.

> Please try "fsck -y" option first although I am not quite optimistic about
> it, given that mounting by hand works so far.

Okay.

> If I were to upgrade, I'd go to 6.4-STABLE first and wait there while
> thinking about the next move.

Right... I'm going to try getting this machine up first, before
fussing with upgrades.

> What does your /etc/rc.conf contain?
$ cat rc.conf
#$Id: rc.conf,v 1.4 2008/03/31 23:44:10 root Exp root $

# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sat Dec  1 16:23:45 2007
# Created: Sat Dec  1 16:23:45 2007
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
defaultrouter="66.111.0.193"
hostname="on.identry.com"
keyrate="fast"
moused_enable="YES"
monit_enable="YES"
ntpd_enable="YES"
ntpd_program="/usr/sbin/ntpd"
ntpd_config="/etc/ntp.conf"
ntpd_sync_on_start="YES"
ntpd_flags="-p /var/run/ntpd.pid"
saver="green"
pf_enable="YES"
pf_rules="/etc/pf.conf"
pf_flags=""                     # additional flags for pfctl startup
pflog_enable="YES"
pflog_logfile="/var/log/pflog"
pflog_flags=""                  # additional flags for pflogd startup
sshd_enable="YES"
#inetd_enable="YES"
usbd_enable="YES"
mysql_enable="YES"
apache22_enable="YES"
apache22_flags="-DSSL"
apache22_http_accept_enable="YES"
sendmail_enable="NONE"
spamd_enable="YES"
spamd_flags="-v -x -u vpopmail"
courier_authdaemond_enable="YES"
courier_imap_imapd_enable="YES"
courier_imap_imapdssl_enable="YES"
courier_imap_imapd_ssl_enable="YES"
courier_imap_pop3d_enable="YES"
courier_imap_pop3dssl_enable="YES"
courier_imap_pop3d_ssl_enable="YES"
clamav_clamd_enable="YES"
clamav_freshclam_enable="YES"
svscan_enable="YES"
snmpd_enable="NO"
pureftpd_enable="YES"
autossh_enable="YES"
mongrel_cluster_enable="YES"
mongrel_cluster_config="/usr/local/etc/mongrel_cluster"

# added by xorg-libraries port
local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d"