> It doesn't boot at all without a serial console...
> 
> It gets to the white screen and stops with "Preserving [some-odd-number] 
> bytes to the NetBSD system table" or something....
> 
> Thats it...thats all it says...
> 
> Could you or anyone else help me?

Does it boot farther (i.e. all the way) with a serial console?  Are you 
sure that you haven't accidentally left virtual memory enabled or 
something a bit like that?

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
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