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Hi Phil

  Thanks for giving it a try ! I'll compress all your questions into
one reply:

> 1) there is 256 MB RAM in the machine, not 131072 (probably not 
 > important yet)

  A bug, I'll fix this (it prints 0Mb on an eMac).

> 2) I didn't type \ at the loader prompt: this happens every time, without
>    touching the keyboard.  After this, I need to reset-all to reattempt,
>    but no matter what it will always say:
> 
>    > \
>    \: unknown command

  This is also benign (happens on sparc64 too, from some of the bootlogs
I've seen). I'll look into it.

 > And now the kernel boots.  The only problem, is the graphics mode
 > which is very obviously garbled.

  Try http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/kernel.dave, which should fix
that.

  Let me know if you still get the panic.

later,

Peter.