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Old 21st October 2008
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9 times out of 10, the problem is the user creating a separate /boot partition. FreeBSD defaults to having /boot as just a directory on the / partition.

The boot loader looks for /boot/kernel/kernel relative to whichever partition is marker bootable. If that's /boot, the what it translates to is /boot/boot/kernel/kernel which doesn't exist.

The easiest fix is to reinstall without the separate /boot partition.
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