Subject: Re: MOP boot trouble (was Re: 5000/240 netboot/tftp failure)
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Michael K. Sanders <msanders@aros.net>
List: port-pmax
Date: 12/23/1997 02:45:41
Jonathan Stone writes:
>
>Mats Jansson's (moj@stacken.kth.se) mopd implementation doesn't grok
>ECOFF (or ELF) format files.  See mopd(8). 

     Mopd supports two kinds of files. The first type that is check is if the
     file is in a.out(5) format. If not, a couple of Digital's formats are
     checked.

It's somewhat vague, but I suppose thinking ECOFF would work was a bit
optimistic. 

>You might actually have better luck using an a.out NetBSD/pmax kernel,
>and tweaking mopa.out to grok mips CPU types as well as th Vax CPU
>type (which is all it currently supports).  But that's just a guess.

Hmm.  What exactly would be involved there?