On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 11:20 -0600, kevin diggs wrote:

This is kind of my problem. ANY suggestions (applicable to an old
world PowerMac) would be appreciated on how to get access to the rest
of the information. This thing appears completely dead at this point. 

You don't have a serial port ?

If you do, use "sccdbg" on the kernel command line to route xmon to it,
and boot with console=ttyPZ0,38400 (I think the old things default to
38400 bauds). Use the "modem" port.

Cheers,
Ben.