I put
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5_ALPHA2/alpha/installation/diskimage/cdhdtape
on the beginning of a disk and then tried booting it on a DS20E.
Below is a copy of what happens.  Note that this machine does have
quite a bit of memory plugged into it. 

What I'd like is for someone to build a
NetBSD-1.5_ALPHA2/alpha/installation/cdhdtape
which includes symbols for the kernel db.
(I'm kind of stuck because I don't have NetBSD running on any other
Alpha, so at the moment I'm not able to try building kernels to fix
this problem.)

Or, if you have any good ideas....

			-Tim Shepard
			 shep@lcs.mit.edu

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P00>>>boot -fl d dka0
(boot dka0.0.0.7.1 -flags d)
block 0 of dka0.0.0.7.1 is a valid boot block
reading 15 blocks from dka0.0.0.7.1
bootstrap code read in
base = 200000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 1e00
initializing HWRPB at 2000
initializing page table at 3ff66000
initializing machine state
setting affinity to the primary CPU
jumping to bootstrap code

NetBSD/alpha 1.5_ALPHA2 Primary Boot +
+.
Jumping to entry point...

NetBSD/alpha 1.5_ALPHA2 Secondary Bootstrap, Revision 1.10
(root@frau-farbissina.shagadelic.org, Aug 14 13:32:09 PDT 2000)

VMS PAL rev: 0x2003600010145
OSF PAL rev: 0x200370002013e
Switch to OSF PAL code succeeded.

Boot flags: d
7704584+250184]=0x7964a8

Entering netbsd at 0xfffffc00003010c0...
[ netbsd ELF symbol table not valid ]
[ no symbol table formats found ]
Stopped at      0xfffffc0000537fc4:     ret     zero,(ra)
db> c
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA2 (INSTALL) #4: Mon Aug 14 15:09:27 PDT 2000
    root@frau-farbissina.shagadelic.org:/amd/swinger/u1/netbsd-1-5/src/sys/archL
COMPAQ AlphaServer DS20E 500 MHz
8192 byte page size, 2 processors.
total memory = 2560 MB
(2696 KB reserved for PROM, 2557 MB used by NetBSD)
panic: startup: cannot allocate VM for buffers
Stopped in  at  0xfffffc0000537fc4:     ret     zero,(ra)
db>