Brian Chase writes:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Greg Oster wrote:
> 
> > Me too, apparently.  My "boot.mop-1.4X-VS4000" isn't sufficient to
> > netboot a new kernel, and the new "boot" file doesn't work either :(
> > (And I'm not sure what all is involved in creating a boot.mop-type
> > file...)
> 
> Since the 1.6 release, the second stage bootloader is being compiled as
> an ELF binary instead of as an a.out binary.  Along with that, there was
> a change from using mopa.out to convert the bootloader to MOP format to
> a new util named mopcopy which is supposed to do the same for a.out and
> ELF binaries.  Well, mopcopy is broken, or at least it was the last time
> I checked.
> 
> So... try the MOP bootloader from 1.5.3:
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5.3/vax/installation/netboot/boot.mop

Ah.. this one works.. Thanks.. Now have a 1.6ZG kernel lit and running.
build.sh is currently working on nbmake... it's gonna be a while to 
get a self-built distribution done... good thing the machine doesn't 
have anything else (or better!) to do :-}

[snip]

Later...

Greg Oster