In response to the q issue....I found that when I hit q and it goes through its sequence, there is a little message there about "to start real empeg hacking, type 'tm' within 5 seconds"

To get into the shell, you need to type 'tm' and enter the minute you see the prompt.

It seems this was a cute little feature of the kernal hack with beta 2.0

Let me know if that doesn't work....

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