>wedged, a kernel printf may still work. And I log all the console
>output using Vixie's rtty package.

Yep, rtty is excellent.  Though I had to add a -7 option to ttysrv
to strip parity on input - otherwise the console logs from Sun's
tend to be crap (the parity setting can flit b/w 8n,7e up to 3 times
during boot of SunOS 4.X).  [I've sent the patch to Paul].

--sjg