On the formidable day of Mar 11, jeff penned:

> >    I wonder if anyone has ever successfully netbooted using firmware
> >    version 3.5-72 ?
>
> as noted in http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/multiafaq.html#netboot ,
> firmware 3.8-2 is suspected to work for netbooting, but was once lost.
> well i have not tried this for myself yet, but here appears to be a copy:
>
> http://www.uni-mainz.de/~weiss/srm382.exe
...
> if anybody tries this, please post your experience.

I tried it, and now all my multia bootp packets are garbage and I'm not
even able to pull down the netboot loader.

-bp
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