Hello,
I don't think what I said last time about this issue made any sense.  To 
recap, what's happening is that after I select the proper boot profile 
generated by newbtconf(), I keep getting errors like "Shared object 
"libc.so.12" not found error."  These errors happen after the file system 
begin to be mounted, daemons begin to be started, etc.  Finally, I get 
this message:
init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/console, sleeping

I did some investigation, I've come across strange behavior.  I ran sh 
from the install system and mounted /dev/wd0a on /mnt and changed /mnt as 
my root directory.  I could use vi, less, more, etc. without any problems. 
I used ldd to see what vi was linked to, and it was linked to -lcurses.6 
=> /usr/lib/libcurses.so.6 and -lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12.  Both 
symlinks were there along with their target files in /lib.
'To see what was in /usr/pkg, I mounted /dev/wd0f on /usr.  After doing so, 
I could cd in /usr/pkg and see files, but ever I would try to use pico, 
vi, less, more, or even ldd, I would these errors: "Shared object 
"libc.so.12" not found error.  However, the shared objects are still there 
in /usr/lib and /lib.  When I unmount /usr, vi, more, etc., work fine.

Any clues of why this happens?  I think this is related to why I get the 
same errors during boot.

Thanks,
Yasir