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>>  It boots multi-user on NewWorld machines.
> 
> 
> has anybody gotten it to boot inside pearpc?  i tried last night but
> it wouldn't boot the iso image i made according to the instructions
> posted to the list recently.

  I did give it a try after after severely hacking PearPC to get it
to run on FreeBSD. But, it wouldn't boot Darwin either..

  I'll try again on a Linux box. I suspect the syscons code won't
work because the PearPC graphics depth is 32 bits and ofw syscons
only supports 8-bit.

later,

Peter.