try 1.5.2 or 1.5.1.. or even 1.5.. I know _one_ of the 1.5's booted a
1.6.1 kernel just fine for me. 

isildur

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Arno Griffioen wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Trying to netboot a (new to me) 4000VLC with NetBSD to serve as a fallback 
> machine in case one of my 3600's runs into trouble (VLC is nice and portable :)
> 
> I don't have a suitable CD-ROM drive for the VLC, so I wanted to boot it
> from the network as I usually do with my other VAXen I install...
> 
> I have read about this problem, but have not seen any solution yet.. But
> perhaps I'm blind and have missed something...
> 
> Using the MOP image in vax/installation/netboot/boot from the 1.6.2 distribution
> fails with an SCB2INT. The MOP image from 1.5.3 boots fine, but fails to load
> a 1.6.2 kernel as it claims to be an 'inappropriate file type' (I guess because
> of ELF kernel that the 1.5 loader doesn't grok?)
> 
> So... Which MOP loader can load a 1.6 kernel?
> 
> Once I have that it's trivial to get NetBSD on the box...
> 
> Thanx!
> 
> 								Bye, Arno.
>