On Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:26:01 -0700  Erik Bertelsen wrote:

> However, the experience i have from the V-kernel
> at Stanford suggests that newer PROMS for ioctl-asic machines
> (e.g.,  the ones shipped as an FCO to installed machines to make them
> able to boot from CD-ROM) simply do not boot well from TFTP at all.
> Only MOP booting really works reliably  on these PROMS.  (Even the
> small V secondary bootloader  failed to boot via TFTP.)

I've haven't got PROM revision numbers handy, but I have *ONE* 5000/240
that boots via TFTP.  We probably have another 20 or so /240's around
here that have a slightly older revision PROM that don't work.  Anyone
know how to upgrade the PROMS?  At first glance, I couldn't even find
the damn things...

> If that is the case for your machine,  I think porting  the
> NetBSD/vax MOP server to Decstations (adding ELF binary support
> to it) may be necessary.

I've got an old mop server (somewhere) that I was going to do this
with, but at the moment, it's firmly in the "much later on" basket.

Simon.