sorry for the delay, had to find a null modem cable and associated 
adapters.

> consdev com0
...
> boot -v
booting hd0a:netbsd (howto 0x20000)
8542988+141540+464252 [398160+319525]=0x96a3ec
Loaded initial symtab at 0xc09bae60, strtab at 0xc0a1c3c4, # entries 23741
BIOS CFG: Model-SubM-Rev: fc-01-00, 0x74<EBDA,KBDINT,RTC,IC2>
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.6ZE (GENERIC.MP.debug) #1: Wed Nov  5 15:45:01 EST 2003
        
root@atlantis.dtcc.edu:/m/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP.debug
total memory = 159 MB
avail memory = 136 MB
using 2068 buffers containing 8272 KB of memory
BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xf0000
mainbus0 (root)
mainbus0: scanning 0x9fc00 to 0x9fff0 for MP signature
mainbus0: scanning 0x9f800 to 0x9fbf0 for MP signature
mainbus0: scanning 0xf0000 to 0xffff0 for MP signature
mainbus0: MP floating pointer found in bios at 0xf4ff0
mainbus0: MP config table at 0xf9c72, 260 bytes long
mainbus0: Intel MP Specification (Version 1.4) (COMPAQ   PROLIANT    )
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 1 (boot processor)
cpu0: Intel Pentium Pro (686-class), 199.33 MHz, id 0x617
cpu0: features fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu0: features fbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV>
cpu0: I-cache 8 KB 32b/line 4-way, D-cache 8 KB 32b/line 2-way
cpu0: L2 cache 512 KB 32b/line 4-way
cpu0: ITLB 32 4 KB entries 4-way, 2 4 MB entries fully associative
cpu0: DTLB 64 4 KB entries 4-way, 8 4 MB entries 4-way
cpu0: calibrating local timer
cpu0: apic clock running at 66 MHz
cpu0: 32 page colors
cpu0: kstack at 0xcd1ad000 for 16384 bytes
cpu0: idle pcb at 0xcd1ad000, idle sp at 0xcd1b0f98
cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 0 (application processor)
cpu1: starting
cpu1: Intel Pentium Pro (686-class), 199.32 MHz, id 0x617
cpu1: features fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
cpu1: features fbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV>
cpu1: I-cache 8 KB 32b/line 4-way, D-cache 8 KB 32b/line 2-way
cpu1: L2 cache 512 KB 32b/line 4-way
cpu1: ITLB 32 4 KB entries 4-way, 2 4 MB entries fully associative
cpu1: DTLB 64 4 KB entries 4-way, 8 4 MB entries 4-way
cpu1: kstack at 0xcd1b9000 for 16384 bytes
cpu1: idle pcb at 0xcd1b9000, idle sp at 0xcd1bcf98
mpbios: bus 0 is type PCI
mpbios: bus 1 is type PCI
mpbios: bus 9 is type ISA
ioapic0 at mainbus0 apid 2 (I/O APIC)
ioapic0: pa 0xfec00000, virtual wire mode, version 11, 24 pins
ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0
ioapic0: remapped to apic 2
ioapic0: int1 attached to isa0 irq 1 (type 0<type=0> flags 5<pol=1=Act 
Hi,trig=1
=Edge>)
ioapic0: int2 attached to isa0 irq 0 (type 0<type=0> flags 5<pol=1=Act 
Hi,trig=1
=Edge>)
ioapic0: int3 attached to isa0 irq 3 (type 0<type=0> flags 5<pol=1=Act 
Hi,trig=1
=Edge>)
ioapic0: int4 attached to isa0 irq 4 (type 0<type=0> flags 5<pol=1=Act 
Hi,trig=1
=Edge>)
ioapic0: int5 attached to isa0 irq 5 (type 0<type=0> flags f<pol=3=Act 
Lo,trig=3
=Level>)
ioapic0: int6 attached to isa0 irq 6 (type 0<type=0> flags 5<pol=1=Act 
Hi,trig=1
=Edge>)
ioapic0: int7 attached to isa0 irq 7 (type 0<type=0> flags 5<pol=1=Act 
Hi,trig=1
=Edge>)
ioapic0: int8 attached to isa0 irq 8 (type 0<type=0> flags 5<pol=1=Act 
Hi,trig=1
=Edge>)
ioapic0: int9 attached to isa0 irq 9 (type 0<type=0> flags f<pol=3=Act 
Lo,trig=3
=Level>)
ioapic0: int10 attached to isa0 irq 10 (type 0<type=0> flags f<pol=3=Act 
Lo,trig
=3=Level>)
ioapic0: int11 attached to isa0 irq 11 (type 0<type=0> flags f<pol=3=Act 
Lo,trig
=3=Level>)
ioapic0: int12 attached to isa0 irq 12 (type 0<type=0> flags 5<pol=1=Act 
Hi,trig
=1=Edge>)
ioapic0: int13 attached to isa0 irq 13 (type 0<type=0> flags 5<pol=1=Act 
Hi,trig
=1=Edge>)
ioapic0: int14 attached to isa0 irq 14 (type 0<type=0> flags 5<pol=1=Act 
Hi,trig
=1=Edge>)
ioapic0: int15 attached to isa0 irq 15 (type 0<type=0> flags 5<pol=1=Act 
Hi,trig
=1=Edge>)
local apic: int0 attached to ExtINT (type 3<type=3=ExtINT> flags 
0<pol=0,trig=0>
)
local apic: int1 attached to NMI (type 1<type=1=NMI> flags 
0<pol=0,trig=0>)
ioapic0: int0 attached to ExtINT (type 3<type=3=ExtINT> flags 
0<pol=0,trig=0>)
mainbus0: MP WARNING: 76 bytes of extended entries not examined
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: Intel 82441FX PCI and Memory Controller (PMC) (rev. 0x02)
ppb0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0: IBM 82351 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev. 0x01)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
esiop0 at pci1 dev 4 function 0: Symbios Logic 53c875 (ultra-wide scsi)
esiop0: using on-board RAM

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