> I've tested the Color Classic with the console_only kernel
> (& booter 1.9)

[description of woe deleted]

> Bootstrapping the pmap system.
> Pmap bootstrapped.
> Moving ROMBase from 0x40a00000 to 0x1b80000.
> Video address 0x50f40000 -> 0x8b80000.
> <freezing...  No response from any of the keyboards,
> the macsbug-restart-shutdown button neither>
> 
> So I guess it hangs in moving the video.
> I disabled all inits etc, same result...

I don't know which kernel this is, but your problems sound like those of
the serial console code which made it into 1.1. Right at that point the
IO space gets moved, but the serial port's idea of where the chip is
doesn't move. So it writes to the wrong place. The patch has been around
for a while, though I'm not sure where the fixed kernels are.

If you have a kernel w/ the serial patch, then something weird's up. :-(

Take care,

Bill