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(Can't edit my last reply, nor the first, not long enough here yet, but if someone could mark it as solved? Thanks)

Ah, thanks for the explanation. I'm happy it works now, overjoyed ;) Now rebuilding my ports, kernel and I'm up and running again, ready for the next challenge, trying to freebsd-update my jails :) Thanks for the great help all!

Indeed, the only GPT warning was during boot, but nothing in dmesg anymore, sounds good. Now to try the 8.2 GENERIC :) (Sorry DutchDaemon, I kept an eye out but missed the formatting of devices)

Yes, I did it with the new mirror, but due to some mistakes on my side, gm0 was my new (and only) mirror ;) I accidentally (don't ask how), managed to not be able to boot into my old mirror anymore, so I went in with a livecd and fixit, broke up the mirror, repartitioned ad6 with the above...

I'm halfway there :) Just got one last question I'm unsure about (found different sources using different statements) When you say "install bootblocks", would this do? gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 mirror/gm0 Or do I need different switches?

Yes, I partitioned it before the mirror :/ Is it possible to repartition my current disks *without* losing any data on it? My guess I came up with while thinking about it today, after reading your answer: - I need to boot using fixit mode - Somehow remove the current partitioning scheme...

Yesterday I tried to do a binary upgrade to 8.2-RELEASE (using freebsd-update), coming from 8.1-RELEASE-p2. The upgrade process went fine, up until the point I rebooted using the GENERIC kernel (nextboot -k GENERIC). After rebooting, I was unable to mount my root filesystem. After some...