On Sat, 16 Oct 1999 dbsaint@bellsouth.net wrote:

> I've recently been playing with my multia and have discovered that if I pop a
> boot disk in at the srm prompt and run:
> 
> >>> b dva0
> 
> It runs up till the point where it says:
> 
> Boot flags:
> 
> Loading netbsd...
> 5479304
> 
> 
> and it just sits there doubling as a heater.
> ANyone familiar with what this is caused by ?
> Mind you I've tried the 1.4 & 1.4.1 install diskettes.
> 
> cheers
> 
> Tony Hernandez

This sounds like what was occurring to my Multia until I upgraded the firmware. 
You can get the latest firmware at:
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/interim/udb/

If you haven't already, you may want to read:
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/multiafaq.html

BTW, one thing I did that really helped was to replace the fan. I put a
23.3CFM fan in mine and now it happily doubles as a mailserver/heat pump.

-Joe