Re: Netboot on Vax

[Toby Thain <toby%telegraphics.com.au@localhost>]

On 03/01/14 11:32 AM, Matthew Whitehead wrote:
> Team,
>    I'm pretty sure the MOP boot program hasn't worked for a long while. The 
> latests I could get to netboot on a MicroVAX-II is 3.1.1. I think the MOP boot 
> program needs to have its ELF header stripped.
>
> The problem with using the old 3.1.1 boot is that it doesn't recognize the newest 
> kernels. It complains "Boot failed: Inappropriate file type or format".
>
> I will work on this, but I'll need some help.
>
> - Matthew

The mopd sources that I found were buggy too, I had to patch them to get 
my MVII to boot NetBSD 1.4.1:


https://github.com/qu1j0t3/mopd

The main upstream source directory was offline when I was attempting 
this, so these were the best sources I could find -- possibly not the 
latest.

--Toby