Hmm, "the 16 bytes of death". That's probably related to the uart fifo
length in combination with a hardware or software problem dealing with
interrupts.

We should work with you to resolve the issue but for now, to get going,
I'm thinking that switching from a serial to a video console will work
around the problem.  Try plugging in a video card and cross your fingers
while hoping that SRM will initialize it properly.

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