OK, cool it boots now. There are some floppy errors while it's loading the
netbsd floppies but after it complains for a while it asks for the next disk
does the same and im in sysinst. I guess the next thing would be to get the
cable so I can actually install this beast .. atleast I know now that it
"works". I've been wanting to get into different architectures other than x86
and Sparc/UltraSparc  I guess I'm on my way to bigger and better things. thanks
for the help.

cheers

Tony Hernandez
 
On 16-Oct-99 Just another Joe wrote:
> 
> 
> 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

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