Hmm, might be slightly above my head (I don't know what a node is). That aside, the boot loader fires up fine, and it makes it to what I believe is near the end of the boot sequence in fact. ad0 is my hard disk; queuevonqu.com/bsderr.jpg
My pardons if that's hard to read. Those messages at the bottom, it just loops those over and over, slowly. Is this what happens if numbering has changed or is this something else? If it looks exactly that way to you, perhaps you can tell me how I might go about finding out the new numbers/locations when set up to "ide" as opposed to "ahci". Perhaps booting off the thumb image I used to install FreeBSD in the first place? I do at least know how to edit the fstab should I get that far. Thank you.