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> >  Thanks for the offer, but FreeBSD/PPC is targeting NewWorld machines at
> > the moment.
> 
> Well I'd love to see FreeBSD work on the old-world machines.  I've got one more
> thing I've been meaning to try to get the FreeBSD loader working.  If that doesn't
> work... perhaps it would be possible to get FreeBSD to lay the kernel out in a
> manner that the NetBSD loader would like.

 Sure, I'm not going to stop anyone that wants to put the effort into this.
(And it does seem like a lot of effort :-)

later,

Peter.