On Sat, 6 Sep 1997 17:00:37 +0200 (MET DST) 
 Matthias Drochner <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de> wrote:

 > Boots and works an an AS200 4/233.

That's good...

 > On halts and reboots, the firmware prints several screens full
 > of register dumps, than resets (ie, behaves as "init" were typed).

That's ... interesting.  Before the firmware spews, there should be
an error message printed out...  This information would be useful.
Could you capture it, possibly with a serial console?

 > A possible drawback is that the new boot code needs more
 > stack space - about 1 kByte. Is this a problem on Alphas?

I don't think this will be a problem.

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