This one had confused me too for a while. However, since I've been
snuffling around in the boot source I had to figure it out.

This is how it works:

There is a program in /usr/sbin called "mopa.out" (personally I would
prefer "mkmop" but there you have it). In the Makefile in the
/usr/src/sys/arch/boot directory it uses this to generate boot.mop from the
boot that was just built. It takes no parameters just:
	/usr/sbin/mopa.out boot boot.mop
and poof, you've got a boot.mop.

Note the interesting thing is that mopa.out will make _any_ a.out file
servable from the mop server. I tried it with a hello world program just
for grins. I used the standalone library to link too though (libsa) so that
the binary wouldn't been too large (I don't know if there is a limit or not)

--Chuck
	
At 12:28 AM 4/13/00 -0700, Todd Whitesel wrote:
>>  .../NetBSD-1.4.2/vax/installation/netboot/boot.mop 
>...
>> Where can I find this file?
>> Maybe another from an older release would do the trick?
>
>The vax that built 1.4.2 still uses a 1.4.1 boot.mop to boot,
>so that should work for you too.
>
>There was no 1.4.2 boot.mop because I couldn't find anything in the
>sources that knew how to build it. By the time I got vax to finish
>at all (the 4000 VLC's hamster was getting pretty tired), I'd totally
>forgotten about trying to get someone to help me build a new one.
>
>Todd Whitesel
>toddpw @ best.com