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... seem to work OK with the syscons tarball. I partitioned one
up in OSX, untarred the root filesys onto an empty partition,
edited fstab to have /dev/da0s12 as root, and using the latest
loader, set currdev to "fw/node/sbp-2/disk@0:12," and booted.

  Seems to work quite well !

later,

Peter.