On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Simon Burge wrote:

> Michael Bartosh wrote:
> 
> > 
> > ELF- this is right, is it not? Older kernels are ECOFF?
> 
> There's your problem!  DECstations only understand ECOFF kernels for
> netbooting.  The disk bootblocks should understand all formats (a.out,
> ECOFF and ELF) but I think they have a problem with ECOFF at the moment.
> So on your disk, you have an ELF kernel as /netbsd, and for netbooting
> you have an ECOFF kernel in the tftpboot directory.
> 
> Thus for netbooting your machine, you want the install.ecoff.gz kernel
> from the release area...

  The install documentation appears to *STILL* say to copy the install
kernel to the tftp directory :-)

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Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
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Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA