On Sat, 16 Dec 1995 17:26:40 -0800 
 Jason Thorpe <thorpej> wrote:

 > rbootd is a daemon that listens for HP Remote Maintainance Protocol boot 
 > requests.  It's low-layer.  Short answer: you can't boot an HP without 
 > it.  Once the BOOTROM has loaded the bootblock (SYS_NBOOT) with rboot, 
 > then it uses rarp and bootparam to find it's IP address, root, and loads 
 > the kernel via NFS.

Just to clear up any confusion my poorly-worded paragraph might cause ... 
the bootblock will use rarp/bootparam/NFS, not the BOOTROM :-)

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