On 949976788 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
Graham Allan wrote:
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>This gets you "DEC AXPpci233 MT Common Console X4.5-819", which does
>netboot sucessfully; at least it does download the netboot second stage
>bootstrap. I haven't got it to proceed further than this; could this be
>because I am using dhcpd instead of bootpd on my server?

The problem that you'd see if the firmware doesn't DTRT is basically
this.  I'd try one of the netboot blocks and hard-code the ethernet
address in and see if that helps.
http://www.imrryr.org/NetBSD/alpha/netboot/
(Set broken firmware to no, or experiment.)

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