on 2/8/00 11:55 AM, Jonathan Stone at jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU wrote:

> 
> In message <B4C5B330.8015%talon16m@hotmail.com>Chris Tribo writes
> 
> 
>> Correct me if I'm wrong/being stupid, but wouldn't all this go away
>> (tftp boot PROM problems) if we had a pmax MOP loader?
> 
> 
> Not entirely. WE can't just switch to MOP: there are PROM revisions
> which don't MOP-boot reliably, either.  And MOP doesn't really work
> through gateways.
> 
> Yes, it would be very nice if we had a pmax MOP loader. Unfortunately,
> the authors of the existing MOP implementations were a little
> VAX/a.out-centric.  If you (or anyone else) wanted to fix that,
> though, it'd be a great project.
> 

    Ah, I didn't know there were problems with MOP'ing machines as well. I
imagine the machines that don't tftp well are the same machines that don't
mop well. 
    Is the trouble with MOP in mopd itself, or the boot.sys mop image file
(in this case, the lack thereof) in that it can't read .ecoff kernels? I
know next to nothing about programming. Maybe...

    Chris


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