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Hi Jens,

> The loader is the same as for PowerMacs. At least, it's documented
> that way in the manual. So creating an cd-image for PowerMac should
> work with the 43p machines (and above).

 In that case, you could burn a ISO CD with just the FreeBSD loader and
kernel and see if they can boot. The loader may, and I'm quite sure
the kernel will bomb out early, but it would at least be a start.

later,

Peter.