> (typed from memory--may be slightly wrong) indicate a problem fetching the
> kernel via tftp or that something was buggered after the code was started?

It means you don't have permission to fetch that file, possibly
because it isn't there.   You might want to take a look at what's
happening via tcpdump:

		tcpdump -vv -x -e -s 1500 udp port 69

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