Thx Gordon for the VME tips...the thing now can find it's disk 
controllers, et. al.

BUT - heh - I'm using a serial console on port a.  So, I load SunOS 3.5 
(yup - for real) and it goes through the autoconfigure sequence...Gets 
the xy disks, etc...gets the scsi disks, etc...and then (this flashes by 
really fast...) prints the ``Using ... buffers ... memory'' and prceeds 
to spew garbage (in a pattern, tho) out the serial port.  The machine 
apparently does not come into multi-user, as I cannot ping it.  "hmm..."

So, of course I can't get anywhere for lack of console...Does anyone know 
what might be happening to that thing?

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