I'm seeing the same problem with 2.6.17-rc1 on my Powerbook6,8. I
get a little further by passing "video=ofonly", which allows me to see
these messages:
[ 27.559054] initcall at 0xc02db560:TAU_init +0x01 0x104(): returned with error code 1
[ 27.560507] initcall at 0xc02ec38c: init_autofs4_fs +0x010x28(): returned with error code -16
The last line I see is
[ 27.642195] sungem.c:v0.98
Disabling CONFIG_TAU makes the first message go
away, but the second one is
still there.