Subject: Re: Netbooting a VS2K
To: David Hamilton <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: emanuel stiebler <emu@ecubics.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/22/1998 11:30:14
Hi David,
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> From: David Hamilton <davidh@vytalnet.com>
> To: port-vax@netbsd.org
> Subject: Netbooting a VS2K
> Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 9:53 AM
> - installed and ran mopd on eth0 (the mop format boot file is called
> /tftpboot/mop/08002B0B1755.SYS)
I always thought & read (VAX-netboot-HOWTO) that this filename has to have
only lowercase-letters.
> - I type /netbsd (or hit enter) and it:
> - gets it's ip address & name address
> - gets the server's ip address
> - finds it's root
> - loads the kernel
> - does a bunch of /^H-^H\^H|^H processing messages
> - says that it's starting at 0x???????? (some number I really should
> have written down)
> - locks up (for at least 7 hours). power must be cycled at this
point.
probably send us the output, you see on your terminal ?
cheers,
emanuel