Bob Lantz wrote:

> > >   I just switched to a new /boot, and I get the same garbled output.  It
> > > looks like the bootstrap is clobbering the PROM fonts somehow.
> > 
> > Wow.   I don't think the bootblocks touch any PROM-reserved areas of RAM.
> > What sort of machines are these problems happening on - I'll see if I
> > can reproduce it here.
> 
> Yes, I get garbled characters on one line as the kernel is loading.
> It should be something like
> 
> 123456+678910+111213
> 
> but instead it's more like
> 
> #^%$#&^# #$#$^ #$ #$#
>  
> Where the above symbols are approximations of garbled fonts.

This has been fixed now, and will be in the next BETA I upload
(hopefully today Aus time).  Thanks to Michael Hitch for rebooting
his machine numerous times :-)

Simon.