On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 andreas@bunten.de wrote:

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> Hello,
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> I'm trying to boot netbsd on a VAXstation 2000 over the network.
> I read the install and netboot pages and followed the instructions
> but got stuck.
>
> The vax sends a mop request, loads the file from the mopd, and then
> just repeats this after a few seconds.
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> Since there was not a single additional packet on the network besides
> the repeating requests & file-loads I suspected the boot-file to be
> the problem. I used this one (and the versions from netbsd 1.6 / 1.62):
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>   ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-2.0/vax/installation/netboot/boot
>
> The file utility claims this to be an ELF binary, which I found rather odd.
> Feeding the vax a similar(?) binary (which is not ELF) from openbsd leads to
> its execution and I see RARP & RPC requests on the wire:
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>   ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.6/vax/boot.mop
>
> Am I being very stupid and using the wrong file? Did somebody use the first
> mentioned (netbsd 2.0) boot-file and it executed properly?

I think the problem is that the MOP loader don't really feed ELF images
correctly across the net, and thus you're not getting a good boot image to
your vax.

It should be telling you something on the screen, or serial console?

	Johnny

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