Hi!

>> I still can't netboot my DS5k/240 - the mopd 2.5.3 I found compiled
>> flawlessly on my linux box, but doesn't get any connections, despite
>> the fact that the bootpd runs fine. That rules out the network.
>
>The problem is that the stock mopd only understand VAX boot files, not
>pmax ECOFF boot files.

OK, if I would only get so far. I'm reading The VAX Network Booting HOWTO
right now - I would have read it before, if I had only knew of it's
existance (thanks Wolfgang!).

>> >Do you still have you /25 running NetBSD?  I've got a severely hacked up
>> >mopd that should let you boot the other box.
>> 
>> Could you put the sources on a ftp server? I'd like to leave the /240
>> diskless.
>
>I'll dig up what I've got - I think it uses some NetBSD (pmax) specific
>headers files for the ECOFF format, so you may have to play a bit to get
>it working under Linux.  I need to make it portable, which probably means
>encoding a lot of pmax specific ECOFF into into mopd.

Could be. But has mopd a real need to understand the pmax specific
things? Should I try to get it recognize the ECOFF format in general?

TIA,
Uli
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