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Re: Problems netbooting



On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 05:43:56PM -0400, Nigel Johnson wrote:
> Reading the manual, I see mopd is looking for " a.out(5)
> <https://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?a.out+5+NetBSD-current> format.
> If not, a couple of Digital's formats are checked."
> 
> but the boot file is an ELF file.

The NetBSD mopd can deal with ELF files, but for some others you need
to convert the binary to a.out (using e.g. objcopy).

Or you can compile our mopd on Linux and use that instead.

Martin


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