>>Description:
>       It seems that i386 kernels larger than about 3.1MB won't load
>       correctly, causing the system to hang while the kernel startup code
>       in locore is running.


isn't this the same problem as PR#4832 ("4MB temp kernel mapping too 
small for large ramdisk kernels")?   if so, it just needs a clean
version of the i386 asm "quick fix" in that PR.


chuck