Subject: Re: netbooting Maxine (MOP, TFTP)
To: Reinoud Zandijk <zandijk@cs.utwente.nl>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: port-pmax
Date: 12/10/1999 09:29:24
Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to netboot a completely functioning Maxine (Digital Personal
> DECstation 5000/33) by either MOP of TFTP.
Unless something has drastically changed, the NetBSD mopd only supports
loading a.out images to vaxes. It doesn't have ecoff support at all
(which is what DECstations use to boot). I've got some patches, but
AFAIK they would only work on another DECstation at the moment and are
not in a state that could be added to the NetBSD tree.
As others have suggested, try to use just dhcpd and tftp. Here's my
complete home /etc/dhcpd.conf:
option domain-name "thistledown.com.au";
option domain-name-servers thoreau.thistledown.com.au, way.thistledown.com.au;
subnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.224 {
option routers way.thistledown.com.au;
}
group {
use-host-decl-names on;
host shark {
hardware ethernet 08:00:2b:81:60:0c;
fixed-address shark.thistledown.com.au;
server-name "thoreau";
filename "shark/netbsd";
option root-path "/tftpboot/shark";
}
host xterm {
hardware ethernet 08:00:2b:2a:29:08;
fixed-address xterm.thistledown.com.au;
server-name "thoreau";
filename "ultrix/xterm";
}
host nader {
hardware ethernet 00:00:c0:91:17:87;
fixed-address nader.thistledown.com.au;
}
}
"xterm" is a 5000/133 (don't worry that it says Ultrix - there's bad
black magic involved there, but it's basically a netbsd-type kernel
thingy).
Simon.