Are you connected by a serial console or working from the monitor 
and built in KB port? It could be sending your console elsewhere
depending
on what your PROM is set to and the S3 switch (can't remember if the
3100
had one). Do you have the error message handy?

	Chris

Kaj-Michael Lang wrote:
> 
> I'm having some big problems getting it to boot. It's start to load a kernel
> ok but when it starts executing all I get is the copyright messages and
> after that, nothing.
> I've run every test I know of and everything checks out fine.
> I have 8Mb of memory in the machine. I've also tried booting OpenBSD and
> Linux netiher work. (OpenBSD gets as far as the copyright, Linux crashes
> with an execption of some kind)
> I tried the compressed kernel it also crashes with an exception.
> 
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