Subject: DecStation 5000/125 and Linux bootp, tftp, nfs
To: None <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Hanspeter Purtschert <purtsch@centralnet.ch>
List: port-pmax
Date: 02/02/1999 23:59:06
I'm using Linux (Suse 6.0, Kernel  2.2.0) as bootp, nfs and tftps server

in order to boot my decstation 5000/125 over network.

I try to boot (Ultrix 4.5 vmunix) with this command:
">>boot 3/tftp"
The decstation gets a correct ip adress and sends a tftp request to get
the boot kernel.

Then the decstation stops booting with an error message:
"?IO: 3/tftp, a.out (-5)"

I think, that the vmunix kernel is to big. But where can I can get a
smaller kernel ?
I also tried to boot nfsnetbsd.ecoff (NetBSD 1.3.3), which doesn't work.

My decstation has prom revsision KN02-BA V5.7e.

Thanks a lot for any help.

--
Hanspeter Purtschert

Student at the Faculty of Industrial Management
and Manufacturing Engineering,ETH Zurich

Email: purtsch@centralnet.ch