i have an CN-EBT-5800 eval board. I haven't run fatload in while (over 1 year), but with tftp, here is the command tftp 21000000 kernelname;bootoctlinux 21000000 if you have a FreeBSD SMP kernel, the command would be tftp 21000000 kernelname;bootoctlinux 21000000 coremask=0xfe i hope that'll help. Jerry