Brian Chase wrote:

>On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Henry R. Bent wrote:
>
>>I have a VAX 4000/2000 that I just started up for the first time since August.
>>I used to boot it from a 4000/90 running 1.5.2, and that set-up had no
>>problems.  In the meantime, though, I wiped the 4000/90 and put a clean install
>>of 1.6 on it.  It is currently correctly configured as the boot server for the
>>4k/200.   However, mopd's ELF support seems to be broken somehow on this
>>platform.  When loading the 1.6 bootloader, I get:
>>
>>?50 SCB2NDINT, EZA0
>>?06 HLT INST
>>        PC = 00000D42
>>
>>
>>The system will correctly load a 1.5 1st stage bootloader over MOP, and will
>>even boot a 1.5.3 kernel, but obviously none of this is of any use to those of
>>us who would like to run 1.6.  Does something need to be patched in the mopd
>>source code for ELF support, perhaps?
>>
>
>You're certainly on the right track.  What I found is that the second
>stage boot loader for the 1.6 release:
>
>  ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6/vax/installation/netboot/boot
>
>isn't a MOP image.  There's a new tool `mopcopy' which is supposed to
>translate a.out or ELF images into moppable ones.  At first I thought it
>was just a release engineering oversight of failing to convert the boot
>file, but then when I tried to use mopcopy, I found that mopcopy was
>broken.  It ended up creating some useless 50MB file from the the 64KB
>boot loader--quite a feat. :-)
>
>It would probably be worthwhile to look at creating an a.out version of
>the bootloader to see if mopcopy can cope with that.  If not, the older
>mopa.out should convert it.  It's a bit of project however you look at
>it.  I still haven't gotten around send-pr'ing a description of the
>problem.  I'm too busy reading and writing e-mail.
>
>-brian.
>

does this mean (for those of us who still think the kernel means Finger 
lickin good - Chicken)- that no vaxen can netboot version 1.6 (via mop)? 
my many attempt have failed using 1.6. My 1.5.zs used worked fine. Is 
there any sinple workaround to netboot 1.6 on vax?