Hey Andrew,

This probably won't help, but when I did the initial install of my
AXPpci33, it did that exact same thing. The only way I got it booting
normally was to upgrade the firmware. Is there a possibility that your
NVRAM got whacked somehow and it loaded the old firmware instead?

Sorry if I sound entirely stupid here, I'm still learning Alpha :)

- Pat 

Andrew Brown wrote:
> 
> help please.
> 
> my alpha (a pc164) used to be quite happy.  then i unplugged the cable
> modem to rerun the power and cable wires and plugged it all back in.
> no response from cable modem.  this is incidental, but leads directly
> to me rebooting my alpha after i tried reruning dhclient on the alpha.
> which didn't work, so i tried rebooting.
> 
> which it no longer does.
> 
> from the serial console it gets as far as
> 
>    >>>boot
>    (boot dqa0.0.0.11.0 -file netbsd -flags -a)
>    block 0 of dqa0.0.0.11.0 is a valid boot block
>    reading 14 blocks from dqa0.0.0.11.0
>    bootstrap code read in
>    base = 180000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 1c00
>    initializing HWRPB at 2000
>    initializing page table at 172000
>    initializing machine state
>    setting affinity to the primary CPU
>    jumping to bootstrap code
> 
> and stops there.  nothing else happens.  it used to say something
> about "NetBSD/alpha 1.5S Primary Boot" and then "NetBSD/alpha 1.5S
> Secondary Bootstrap", but nothing else happens.
> 
> arg!
> 
> of course, dhclient on other machines also gives me nothing from the
> cable modem...bleah.
> 
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