weirdly enough, it booted to the setup disk just fine, but during automatic configuration, the screen goes blank and the whole thing locks up. from then on, any cold power cycle results in the error code 0F! i've pulled the battery again to clear whatever was loaded in there.
OK i let it sit and then rewrote a new reference disk. perhaps it detected the type 2 planar and screwed something up in the type 1 planar's CMOS?