| #if 0 out the consdev command stuff -- with it, boot blocks don't
| work, without it, they work fine.  Size issue?

This is ... weird.

All I have as a bug report was Erik saying "just spews garbage instead
of the count down and spinner."

Can you describe the problem any better [pr?]?

I guess size is a possible issue, but (obviously) I haven't
been able to reproduce it.

--jhawk