Subject: Re: Non-booting Multia
To: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.futureone.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/04/1998 16:54:13
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Tim Rightnour wrote:
> Bloody annoying.. Can't we use mopd instead of bootpd. I don't even know what
> mopd *does* but the SRM has support for it.
Mopd is just abother boot loader - providing you can get it to
accept the alpha image I don't see why it shouldn't work.
(If I recall it has a certain predeliction for a.out)
I've used it to boot a NetBSD/vax system from a NetBSD/i386,
and Brian Chase has an overview of getting it to work for
NetBSD/vax (which may be of some interest) at:
http://world.std.com/~bdc/projects/vaxen/VAX-netboot-HOWTO.html
Give we ship with a mopd it would make a lot of sense to support
it under NetBSD/alpha (if possible)
David/absolute
"I may not always say what I mean, but I usually mean what I say."