Subject: Re: Strange 3100 problems
To: Matthias Bauer <bauer@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 06/07/1999 15:41:24
On Mon, 07 Jun 1999, Matthias Bauer wrote:
>we've got a 3100 M38 here, SHOW VER says:
>
>	KA42-B: V1.1C2-177-V5.0-256
>
>None of the netboot commands suggested in the install-guide
>work, it always returns ILL CMD or DEVASSIGN errors. Looking
>through the VAX-netboot-HOWTO, I found: >>> b/100 esa0
>this at least starts MOP. So far so good, but there's no
>mopified image in 
>
>ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4/pmax/installation/netboot
>
>We could mopify something ourselves with mopa.out, but the 
>diskimage is not in a.out format. Could somebody please point
>to an image in the correct format, a.out or mop, or explain
>how to boot this machine over tftp.

  VAX != pmax.  The pmax port is for the DECstation line of machines,
MIPS-based RISC boxes.  Your machine is based on a VAX processor, you need to
be sniffing around in NetBSD/vax.

                     -Dave McGuire