Subject: Re: Help With PROM V5.7j
To: Benjamin Stocks <stocksb@msoe.edu>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: port-pmax
Date: 08/16/1999 01:54:18
Benjamin Stocks wrote:

> Hi all, I have a DEC 5000/125 with PROM revision 5.7j. According to the
> docs I found on the netbsd site, TFTP booting is not working with this
> PROM. Has anyone gotten NetBSD to boot on this system/PROM? Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.

I'd try to boot the smallnet.ecoff kernel to see if that works.  If
you've got any Ultrix systems around you can also boot via MOP instead
of TFTP.  I'm guessing you're trying to do a network install, and can't
use another system with SCSI disks as a helper system?

Simon.