>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?

i've tried several versions of the srm console stuff (i assume that's
what you're referring to here) over time (someone told me that an
older one would actually be able to write my settings in a manner that
they would not be forgotten between power cycles) and settled on one
that worked fine until about a week and a half ago (it having been
installed a while ago).  this reboot (and the few since then) it just
decided that he console wasn't working after i told it to boot.

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

heh.  me too apparently.  :)

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