>    Did you set "sunmon-compat?" to "false" in the NVRAM like the INSTALL doc sez?
> 
> actually, i think that now we have sun4 support we don't
> need this anymore.

I have never personally experienced problems with booting from the
"compat" prompt, but apparently someone has in past.

I'd think that you wouldn't notice when looking at the strings passed in
the prom's data structures from within the kernel or boot program (modulo
prom bugs..).

-pk