On Sat, 16 Dec 1995, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> 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 :-)

Is the rbootd.tar that's on the ftp site complete or is it dependant on
something else in NetBSD to run?  If it's complete, I'll try to port it
to OS/2 via gcc and emx.  

Also you mentioned something wrong with the miniroot on the ftp site.  Is
that fixed or is it something else that wasn't working?

Vince.

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