As of now, somehow the node(the old machine with P3 processor) is able to boot 'freebsd.newnode'(freebsd47.newnode) from Boss.(The new machine I have here with Core 2 processor could not boot it).
I think you want to back up and switch over to the 6.X versions of the MFSs if you want to boot current hardware.
At this point, as the document said, the node info such as MAC
Was there nothing else on the console? It did not spit out a bunch of stuff indicating what it was doing? Lbs