Not auto booting from harddrive. Have to manually choose partition

I've installed pfsense and for some reason no matter what I try it does not autoboot. It starts bootup and then stops and asks for "Manual root filesystem specification:".

Unlike every other post I can find for either pfsense or freebsd on that message, I do not have any error about trying to load the file system. If I manually type in "ufs:ad0s1a" it then boots up.

I've checked the /etc/fstab file and everything is correct in there. (shows ad0s1a for root filesystem and ad0s1b for swap).

I've searched google for hours with no luck. I've changed bios settings relating to the harddrive settings sata/ide/etc.

Below is the output of my dmesg.boot. If anyone can please shed some light on how I can resolve this I would be very grateful.

Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p5 #0: Sun Dec 6 22:57:48 EST 2009 sullrich@FreeBSD_7.2_pfSense_1.2.3_snaps.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense.7 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6420 @ 2.13GHz (2133.35-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6f6 Stepping = 6 Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> Features2=0xe3bd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM> AMD Features=0x20000000<LM> AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> Cores per package: 2 real memory = 3212443648 (3063 MB) avail memory = 3137810432 (2992 MB) ACPI APIC Table: <A M I OEMAPIC > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard wlan: mac acl policy registered kbd1 at kbdmux0 cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard padlock0: No ACE support. acpi0: <A M I OEMRSDT> on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of 0, a0000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 100000, bf700000 (3) failed Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0 pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0 vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xb400-0xb407 mem 0xcfc80000-0xcfcfffff,0xd0000000-0xdfffffff,0xcfc40000-0xcfc7ffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 agp0: <Intel 82945G (945G GMCH) SVGA controller> on vgapci0 agp0: detected 7932k stolen memory agp0: aperture size is 256M pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 16 at device 28.0 on pci0 pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1 uhci0: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> port 0xb800-0xb81f irq 20 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci0: [ITHREAD] usb0: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: <Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usb0 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> port 0xc000-0xc01f irq 17 at device 29.1 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci1: [ITHREAD] usb1: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: <Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usb1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> port 0xc400-0xc41f irq 18 at device 29.2 on pci0 uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci2: [ITHREAD] usb2: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> on uhci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: <Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usb2 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci3: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> port 0xc800-0xc81f irq 19 at device 29.3 on pci0 uhci3: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci3: [ITHREAD] usb3: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> on uhci3 usb3: USB revision 1.0 uhub3: <Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usb3 uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0 pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2 fxp0: <Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0xd400-0xd43f mem 0xcff9f000-0xcff9ffff,0xcfe00000-0xcfefffff irq 21 at device 9.0 on pci1 miibus0: <MII bus> on fxp0 inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:03:47:96:c3:a5 fxp0: [ITHREAD] em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 6.9.6> port 0xd800-0xd83f mem 0xcffe0000-0xcfffffff,0xcffc0000-0xcffdffff irq 22 at device 10.0 on pci1 em0: [FILTER] em0: Ethernet address: 00:1b:21:9b:0c:72 isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xffa0-0xffaf at device 31.2 on pci0 ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 ata0: [ITHREAD] ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 ata1: [ITHREAD] pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached) acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0 speaker0: <PC speaker> port 0x61 on acpi0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] atkbd0: [ITHREAD] psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: [ITHREAD] psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4 cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 ACPI Warning (tbutils-0243): Incorrect checksum in table [SSDT] - 22, should be 29 [20070320] est0: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu0 p4tcc0: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu0 cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 est1: <Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control> on cpu1 p4tcc1: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu1 pmtimer0 on isa0 orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xcb000-0xcbfff,0xcc000-0xcd7ff pnpid ORM0000 on isa0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0: port may not be enabled sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 8250 or not responding sio0: [FILTER] sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing. ad0: 476940MB <SAMSUNG HD502IJ 1AA01112> at ata0-master SATA150 SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! Manual root filesystem specification: <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype> eg. ufs:da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices <empty line> Abort manual input mountroot> ? List of GEOM managed disk devices: ufsid/4e708e6727021f17 ad0s1c ad0s1b ad0s1a ad0s1 ad0 Manual root filesystem specification: <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype> eg. ufs:da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices <empty line> Abort manual input mountroot> ufs:ad0s1a Trying to mount root from ufs:ad0s1a