Debian 3.0r1 on AS1000 5/400 won't boot

[Silvan Graf <silvan.graf@gmx.ch>]

Hello

I successfully installed Debian 3.0r1 on my Alphaserver 1000 5/400 via TFTP 
and NFS. I started the installation from SRM via boot ewa0, worked pefectly. 
The installation of the base system completed successfully, at least it seems 
like. The disk dka0 | /dev/sda has a BSD disklabel:
a: 2-190 ext2, 
b: 191-255 swap,
c: 1-255 type 0
I started first partition at cyl 2 to leave space for aboot as suggested by 
the debian instalation tool.
At the end of the base installation i chose a kernel to install and had the 
installer make the system bootable. I also created a bootdisk. After reboot, 
which caused the system to hang in the srm, showing some logs from tftp boot. 
I thought that's normal and pressed the reset button. Back in SRM neither 
boot dka0 nor boot dva0 were able to start the kernel. Both showed that a 
boot sector was found and that the system was jumping to bootstrap code. 
After that point nothing more happened.

I also tried to start aboot in the interactive mode by passing -fl i, but this 
didn't work either.

I'm sure the disks as well as the memory are ok, cause the installer boots 
very well. I already thought at the possibility to always boot from TFTP, but 
i have not yet found a tftp boot image that starts a completed installation.

What could i do?

thanks in advance

Yours,
Silvan