lockup booting 8.0-CURRENT-200811 snap image

Hi, I've been trying to update my system to Current to try out the new 
usb stack etc..
and have had some problems.   Initially I attempted to just do a cvsup, 
make buildworld,
make kernel and had problems at the reboot.  Ended up having to use the 
livecd to swap
out the kernel (loader was strangely hanging before I could type unload; 
boot kernel.old)

Anyways,  I picked up a new drive to split my system up to have a 
working 7 & current.
So, I downloaded the 200811 snap iso's for amd64 & i386 and tried to 
boot to them.
Same/similar lockup happens.. now since this board currently doesn't 
have a serial port
I've had to handtype what was left on the screen.. so hopefully it's 
enough for now.

System: INTEL BLKDG35EC 775 G35  (flashed to the **ECG3510M.86A.0107** 
Bios Image)
              INTEL C2Q Q9300 2.5G 775
              2 gigs memory (messed up on original order and havnt fixed 
it yet)
              using the built-in Intel video..
           
so the i386 and the amd64 dvd image I booted with had the same stopping 
screen/output
that I could see.. this is what I was able to get down from a verbose boot.

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   Initial Probe      0   10    N     0  3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12
   Validation         0   10    N     0  3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12
   After Disable    0  255   N     0  3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12
acpi_hpet0: <High Precision Event Timer> iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff on 
acpi0
acpi_hpet0: vend: 0x8086 rev: 0x1 num: 2 hz: 14318180 opts: legacy_route 
64-bit Timecounter "HPET" frequency 143181800 Hz quality 900
acpi_button0: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
pci0: domain=0, physical bus=0
found-> vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2980,  revid=0x03
             domain=0, bus=0, slot=0, func=0
             class=06-00-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=0
             cmdreg=0x0006, statreg=0x2090, cachelnsz=0 (dwords)
             lattimer=0x00 (0 ns), mingnt=0x00 (0ns), maxlat=0x00 (0 ns)
found-> vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2982,  revid=0x03
             domain=0, bus=0, slot=2, func=0
             class=03-00-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=1
             cmdreg=0x0007, statreg=0x0090, cachelnsz=0 (dwords)
             lattimer=0x00 (0 ns), mingnt=0x00 (0ns), maxlat=0x00 (0 ns)
             intpin=a,  irq=11
             powerspec 2   supports D0 D3  current D0
             MSI supports 1 message
             map[10]: type Memory, range32, base 0x90200000, size 20, 
enabled
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Any suggestions on how to proceed?

I'll see about installing the new install on the new drive starting at 
RELENG_7
and updating to HEAD from there.. so any source changes will have to wait on
completing that.. but anything would help.

    -Phil.