----- Original Message -----
From: "PaulT" <ptice@p2.net>
To: "'Rink Springer'" <rink@springer.cx>
Cc: <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 10:07 PM
Subject: RE: DSSI Support?

Well, the weird part is that my VAX 4000/300 boots fine, but my MicroVAX
2000 (I think it was) does not... I use bootpd and mopd, and it mounts from
a FreeBSD box.

--Rink


> I used the mopd from the 1.5-Alpha, then used bootp instead of bootparam.
This
> worked fine for the 1.4.2 kernel except, of course, that 1.4.2 doesn't
support
> the ethernet on the 3300!
> This caused my old kernel to refuse to acknowledge that NFS was even
available.
> Upgrading to the 1.5-GENERIC worked for me. If it is failing to load / (as
> opposed to not TRYING to load / ) you might try mounting your NFS export
local
> to your bootserver and make sure that it is -maproot=root
>
> Oh, and if you do go with the newer mop.boot and use bootp (it's easier
and WAY
> faster than bootparam), be aware that you need short paths to your root.
> /usr/vax/root works fine for me, but /usr/export/vaxen/root did not.
>
> If you need, I can grab my bootptab files this eve and mail em over to you
as
> an example.
>
> Good Luck
> Paul
>
>
> On Tuesday, July 11, 2000 2:10 PM, Rink Springer [SMTP:rink@springer.cx]
wrote:
> > Snip -(Q RE Vax2000 netboot)
> ----------------------------------
> I tried hacking NetBSD onto my solar powered calculator.
> But the sun is never out when I'm hacking, so I couldn't test it.
> ----------------------------------
>