alpha multia boot problems

[Igor Grabin <violent@death.kiev.ua>]

Hiya,

short disclaimer: I know that multias suck. I've also gone all the way
through its heat death, and this is not the case. Its battery is dead,
and will stay like that.
Now, down to the case.

trying to boot floppy31.fs from today's snapshot over serial console...

Entering bsd at 0xfffffc0000230000...
Unrecognized boot flag '0'.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
        The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1995-2002 OpenBSD. All rights reserved.  http://www.OpenBSD.org

OpenBSD 3.1-beta (RAMDISK) #15: Sat Mar 23 06:56:28 MST 2002
    deraadt@alpha.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/RAMDISK
(PCI ISA), 167MHz
8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
total memory = 25165824 (24576K)
(2424832 reserved for PROM, 22740992 used by OpenBSD)
avail memory = 15237120 (14880K)
using 277 buffers containing 2269184 bytes (2216K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: ID 0 (primary), LCA-2 (21066 pass 2)
lca0 at mainbus0
pci0 at lca0 bus 0
vendor 0x20d0 product 0x1fc2 (unknown class 0x1f, subclass 0xc2, rev 0xd0) at pd
[lotta lines exactly like this]
vendor 0x20d0 product 0x1fc2 (unknown class 0x1f, subclass 0xc2, rev 0xd0) at pdsiop0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 vendor 0x1000 product 0x0001 rev 0x01: isa irq 11scsibus0 at siop0: 8 targets
siop0: target 0 now using 8 bit async xfers
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <TOSHIBA, MK2326FB, A15B> SCSI1 0/direct fixed
sd0: 324MB, 969 cyl, 14 head, 49 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 665388 sec total
sio0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 vendor 0x8086 product 0x0484 rev 0x03
de0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 vendor 0x1011 product 0x0002 rev 0x23: isa irq 15
de0: DEC 21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 address 08:00:2b:e2:ca:82
vendor 0x0001 product 0x0000 (class prehistoric, subclass miscellaneous, rev 0xd
vendor 0x20d0 product 0x1fc2 (unknown class 0x1f, subclass 0xc2, rev 0xd0) at pd
vendor 0x20d0 product 0x1fc2 (unknown class 0x1f, subclass 0xc2, rev 0xd0) at p
[again lotta lines exactly like this]
tga0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 vendor 0x1011 product 0x0004 rev 0x02: DC21030 s2tga0: 1024 x 768, 8bpp, Bt485 RAMDAC
tga0: interrupting at isa irq 10
wsdisplay0 at tga0
vendor 0x20d0 product 0x1fc2 (unknown class 0x1f, subclass 0xc2, rev 0xd0) at pd
[well, you've guessed it. them again :)]
sa0 at sio0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
com0: console
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
mcclock0 at isa0 port 0x70/2: mc146818 or compatible
stray isa irq 3
stray isa irq 4
WARNING: can't figure what device matches ""
root on rd0a swap on rd0b
rd0: fixed, 5744 blocks
rootdev=0x600 rrootdev=0x1c00 rawdev=0x1c02
WARNING: preposterous clock chip time
 -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
erase ^?, werasestray isa irq 4
de0: autosense failed: cable problem?

...and it hangs dead. Yes, network cable is unplugged. Plugging it in
doesn't make this thing look more alive.
floppy26.fs boots fine, freebsd 4.5-release boots, but fails to use
the network, netbsd 1.4.2 boots, netbsd
1.5-whatever_latest_release_they_have hangs exactly like above.

any hints? :)
-- 
Igor Grabin, Incosoft Technical Support