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Hi Joel,

> I've managed to build a world and kernel from the CURRENT sources as of
> today (11/25/03).  I'm trying to set up a way to easily track the
> progress of FreeBSD on PowerPC.  I can net boot my iBook, but it doesn't
> go into syscons.  I'm stuck with the slow white screen with black text. 
> What do I have to do to get it to use syscons?

  The syscons work disappeared into the ether with the lightning strike
that took out my hard drive. It'll be resurrected sometime soon.

later,

Peter.