The problem I have though, is getting the boot loader onto my console media!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Johnny Billquist" <bqt@update.uu.se>
To: "Tim Crawley" <timc@lexicon.net>
Cc: <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: Netbooting 11/7xx (DEUNA/DELUA)


> On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Tim Crawley wrote:
>
> > I have 'Reflections' terminal software witch I think should
> > do all the PC end, but I am not sure of what I would have
> > to do at the 11/785 end.
> >
> > I also do have a 3rd party Unibus SCSI tape controler.
> > I researched this a while ago, but It seams that it is
> > non bootable.
>
> Old VAXen don't work that way. There are no non-bootable devices.
> The VAX-11 machines *all* boot from the console media. There is no other
> possibility. Once you've gone through that initial boot stage, you have
> loaded your actual boot program. Since this boot program is software
> loaded from a device, you can in essence write any boot program you care
> for. Also, this means that the controllers have nothing to do with being
> bootable or not. They are not involved in the process.
>
> This is not PC hardware. :-)
>
> Johnny
>
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