> After installing MacBSD the boot hangs before any "gray bars" appear.

Did you tell the booter that you have 5MB?  I think it defaults to 8.
Was this a clean install of Alpha2?

> Why isn't the kernel shipped in a tar file in the Alpha2 release?

Because it wasn't in a subdir and Alpha2 was cranked out in an evening...
I need to learn to not do that, but I was continually reminded how far
ahead of the first release that I was and wanted to let everyone else
catch up somewhat.  It's labelled "alpha" for at least one reason...

-allen

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