[makkonen]

Did you say where exactly it freezes up? Right after 'loading linux' goes away? (Sorry, too lazy at 4:30am to go check.) If so, my strong suspicion would be that it lies in the mach_type/mtype definition, which is in the startup.txt. But you say you've checked that, so I'm sort of stumped, too. (Maybe try other startup.txts, even if you know they're wrong, to see what happens.)

I trust that if we kept at it, we could figure out what was wrong. Computing technology is still deterministic (...as I have to keep telling myself). But I also can totally understand throwing your hands up in frustration and giving up.

Edit: Yes. You did say. While I was writing. Even though it looks like I can't read, I swear I can.