[Gentoo] Progress report #?

Ok, so while I set out to do regular progress reports in the past, I haven't been very good about it, but I'm trying again now.

I've finally got all of my hardware together at home now, it's all done up on some wire shelving, so that I can run more of it, in a smaller amount of space.

File server - Athlon XP 2200, 4x 80GB IDE (Linux MD RAID5), 100Mb ZIP drive
SCSI testbox - Pentium4 2.2Ghz, 1x 18.2Gb SCSI, 2x 9.1Gb SCSI
MyCable XXS1500 embedded system (AMD Au1500 CPU)
VIA C3 - low power testbox #1
VIA C3-2 - media testbox, with TV capture card + TV output
SGI Visual Workstation 320 - Dual Pentium3 550Mhz, 768Mb RAM, 9.1Gb SCSI, 250Mb ZIP drive.
LinkSys NSLU2
Sun UltraSPARC5
SGI Octane - R12k 300mhz, 576Mb, 9.1Gb SCSI, dual ESI graphics heads.
SGI O2 - R12k 300mhz, 512Mb, 9.1Gb SCSI

At the moment, I'm working on getting the VisWS going again. Back in the 2.4 days I did an identical machine, but that one is long gone. So far it's work writing a new bootloader.

For the record, it IS possible to get a real command prompt for the PROM console, by doing the following:
Go to "System Utilities", "Run Third-Party Program", Select "CDROM" as the source, and enter "Command Monitor" as the command name. You don't need any CD in, just do it, and it will bring up the ARC console.