Michael Kukat wrote:

> >       My second problem doesn't seem to have to do with the vax boot loader,
> > but I may as well mention it.
> >
> > mopd seems to _always_ fail on the first boot attempt.  From a fresh boot,
> > or from a fresh invocation, the first boot request fails.  Subsequent boot
> > attempts are fine.  Again, the server's running under NetBSD-1.3.3-alpha.
>
> This might be a bug in the mopd. I never got such a thing in the mop-phase. Got
> problems in getting bootparams every second time, but mopd always worked. It's
> running under Linux here.

I've experienced the same problem with the mopd, also running 1.3.2-vax (I think -
the last formal 1.3 release, not snapshot). If run in fg mode, it would show the
first request, then just sit there for a while. If you halt the machine you're
trying to boot, and try again, it will operate correctly. Just fails on the first
attempted boot after loading mopd.