On Wed, 28 May 1997, Dan Gardner wrote:

> OK, I have got down all the stuff needed to boot my VS2000, built a
> linux box with mopd etc.
> 
> Now when I try to boot the VS2000 off esa0, I get the Bootfile: prompt
> and on the linux box (from an strace'd mopd and a moptrace) I can see
> the VS2000 sending loads of requests for a mop package, but nothing ever
> gets back to the Vax. On the Vax, I get:
> 

Ok, if you run mopd -d -a do you see any request packets? 

Secondly the mopboot file on the Linux box should be named 
MOPBOOT.SYS in /tftpboot/mop/ (the capitalisation is important)

Do you have multicasting on in the kernel?

Also did you try ifconfig eth0 allmulti ?

Let me know please!!

Cheers
Karl

 


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Karl Maftoum
Computer Engineering Student at the University of Canberra, Australia

Email: k.maftoum@student.canberra.edu.au