Great news - I was able to boot 5.8 from a CDROM

Thanks everyone for your help so far.  I did have to burn a new CDROM (the
one from the 5.8 set was designed to boot on i386 and not Alpha).  Once I
did that, I was able to bring up the system (my dmesg is below).

Some questions:

1.  I'm assuming the "preposterous clock chip time" can be managed in the
SRM console so I'll exercise my Google-fu to figure that out.

2.  Is the "nvram corrupt" something I need to be concerned about?  If so,
what should I do here?  Is that a hardware issue or can I re-initialize it
somehow?

3.  Anything I should be concerned about with the "stray irq 3" message?

Thanks again!

>>>show device
dka400.4.0.9.0             DKA400                        RRD46  0557
dva0.0.0.0.1               DVA0
ewa0.0.0.6.0               EWA0              00-00-F8-24-E5-03
pka0.7.0.9.0               PKA0                  SCSI Bus ID 7  5.57
>>>boot dka4
(boot dka400.4.0.9.0 -flags a)
block 0 of dka400.4.0.9.0 is a valid boot block
reading 15 blocks from dka400.4.0.9.0
bootstrap code read in
base = 156000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 1e00
initializing HWRPB at 2000
initializing page table at 148000
initializing machine state
setting affinity to the primary CPU
jumping to bootstrap code

OpenBSD/Alpha Primary Boot
OpenBSD/alpha boot 1.10
VMS PAL rev: 0x1000000010114
OSF PAL rev: 0x1000000020116
Switch to OSF PAL code succeeded.
cannot open /etc/random.seed: No such file or directory
Loading bsd...
7199024+529528=0x75f0f8

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OpenBSD 5.8 (RAMDISKBIG) #134: Sun Aug 16 07:07:51 MDT 2015
    [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/RAMDISKBIG
Digital AlphaStation 500/400, 400MHz
8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
real mem = 67108864 (64MB)
rsvd mem = 2359296 (2MB)
avail mem = 56008704 (53MB)
mainbus0 at root
cpu0 at mainbus0: ID 0 (primary), 21164A-0 (unknown minor type 0)
cpu0: architecture extensions: 1<BWX>
cia0 at mainbus0: DECchip 2117x Core Logic Chipset (ALCOR/ALCOR2), pass 3
cia0: extended capabilities: 21<DWEN,BWEN>
cia0: using BWX for PCI config and bus access
pci0 at cia0 bus 0
de0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "DEC 21040" rev 0x26, DEC 21040 pass 2.6:
kn20aa ir
q 13, address 00:00:f8:24:e5:03
qlw0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "QLogic ISP1020" rev 0x02: kn20aa irq 12
qlw0: nvram corrupt
qlw0: firmware rev 4.66.0, attrs 0x0
scsibus0 at qlw0: 16 targets, initiator 7
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 4 lun 0: <DEC, RRD46 (C) DEC, 0557> SCSI2 5/cdrom
removable
pceb0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "Intel 82375EB EISA" rev 0x15
eisa0 at pceb0: DEC5100, 4 slots
isa0 at pceb0
isadma0 at isa0
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 irq 1 irq 12
mcclock0 at isa0 port 0x70/2: mc146818 or compatible
stray isa irq 3
softraid0 at root
scsibus1 at softraid0: 256 targets
root on rd0a swap on rd0b dump on rd0b
WARNING: preposterous clock chip time
 -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
erase ^?, werase ^W, kill ^U, intr ^C, status ^T

Welcome to the OpenBSD/alpha 5.8 installation program.
(I)nstall, (U)pgrade, (A)utoinstall or (S)hell? s
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Thanks,
Bryan