Okay strange idea, but if you are wanting to bootstrap using your own transistors or core rope memory, why not define your baseline architecture instructions in

Okay strange idea, but if you are wanting to bootstrap using your own transistors or core rope memory, why not define your baseline architecture instructions in such a way that the boot loader instructions are defined by some physical constants you could measure from your environment (star positions?) or some constant you could calculate (first N digits of PI?) that is as long as you can verify the underlying hardware, you can manually verify the "firmware"... or something, not sure this makes any sense. At least it would a whole new layer of mysitcism to the process :)