Greg,


Thank you very much for the detailed logs and configuration files.

I'm going to start again tonight, using your advice as my lead.

Thanks again for the assistance!


         - Matt




At 10:00 AM 1/29/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Matthew Sell wrote:
>
> > All kinds of activity. I can see the network activity between MOPD and the
> > VAX by looking at the hub, and of course the status messages in the logs.
> >
> > In the meantime, I've been trying to start NetBSD as an alternative, with
> > absolutely no luck there, either. I started out by mistakingly trying to
> > boot the NetBSD kernel, rather than the bootloader.
>
>Yeah, I read that thread too.
>
> > I corrected that, and attempted to start various versions of the NetBSD
> > bootloader - all with no success.
> >
> > Am I supposed to be MOP loading the VAX with the "vmlinux.ka43.SYS" 
> kernel?
> > Or is there a smaller bootloader?
>
>Yes, it's the whole Linux kernel that's sent by mopd. Here's a rundown on
>my configuration:
>
>/var/lib/nfs/etab:
>
>         /tftpboot/vaxroot       vulcan(no_root_squash,rw)
>
>/etc/dhcpd.conf:
>
>         # VAX 3100/M76
>
>         host vulcan
>         {
>           hardware ethernet 08:00:2b:23:12:09;
>           fixed-address vulcan;
>           option host-name vulcan;
>           #option root-path "/tftpboot/vax";      # for NetBSD
>           option root-path "/tftpboot/vaxroot";  # for Linux
>         }
>
>DNS is configured to resolve an IP for the vulcan.  The vaxroot tarball is
>unpacked into /tftpboot/vaxroot.  In /tftpboot/mop:
>
>         ln -s /tftpboot/vaxroot/vmlinux.ka43.SYS 08002b231209.SYS
>
>Here's what I see in /var/log/messages on the DNS/MOP/NFS/DHCP server:
>
>Jan 29 09:52:45 penguin mopd[32417]: 8:0:2b:23:12:9 (2) Do you have 
>08002b231209? (Yes)
>Jan 29 09:52:45 penguin mopd[32417]: 8:0:2b:23:12:9 (2) Do you have 
>08002b231209? (Yes)
>Jan 29 09:52:45 penguin mopd[32417]: 8:0:2b:23:12:9 Send me 08002b231209
>Jan 29 09:52:45 penguin mopd[32417]: 8:0:2b:23:12:9 Send me 08002b231209
>Jan 29 09:52:49 penguin mopd[32417]: 8:0:2b:23:12:9 Load completed
>Jan 29 09:52:56 penguin dhcpd: BOOTREQUEST from 08:00:2b:23:12:09 via eth0
>Jan 29 09:52:56 penguin dhcpd: BOOTREPLY for 192.168.1.77 to vulcan 
>(08:00:2b:23:12:09) via eth0
>Jan 29 09:52:57 penguin rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from 
>192.168.1.77:800 for /tftpboot/vaxroot (/tftpboot/vaxroot)
>
>The boot takes about two minutes to a login prompt.
>
>- Greg



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