Subject: Re: Non-booting Multia
To: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.futureone.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/04/1998 16:54:13
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Tim Rightnour wrote:

> Bloody annoying..  Can't we use mopd instead of bootpd.  I don't even know what
> mopd *does* but the SRM has support for it.

	Mopd is just abother boot loader - providing you can get it to
	accept the alpha image I don't see why it shouldn't work.
	(If I recall it has a certain predeliction for a.out)
	I've used it to boot a NetBSD/vax system from a NetBSD/i386,
	and Brian Chase has an overview of getting it to work for
	NetBSD/vax (which may be of some interest) at:

	http://world.std.com/~bdc/projects/vaxen/VAX-netboot-HOWTO.html

	Give we ship with a mopd it would make a lot of sense to support
	it under NetBSD/alpha (if possible)

		David/absolute

      "I may not always say what I mean, but I usually mean what I say."