Weird console problem on domU

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>]

Has anyone seen a strange problem where domUs stop mid-boot and complain
about garbage passed to the single-user shell, evidently the result of all
the kernel's console output being treated as console _input_?

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  Thor Lancelot Simon                                        
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