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Hello,

I'm trying to boot netbsd on a VAXstation 2000 over the network.
I read the install and netboot pages and followed the instructions
but got stuck.

The vax sends a mop request, loads the file from the mopd, and then
just repeats this after a few seconds.

Since there was not a single additional packet on the network besides
the repeating requests & file-loads I suspected the boot-file to be
the problem. I used this one (and the versions from netbsd 1.6 / 1.62):

   ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-2.0/vax/installation/netboot/boot

The file utility claims this to be an ELF binary, which I found rather 
odd. Feeding the vax a similar(?) binary (which is not ELF) from openbsd 
leads to its execution and I see RARP & RPC requests on the wire:

   ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.6/vax/boot.mop

Am I being very stupid and using the wrong file? Did somebody use the 
first mentioned (netbsd 2.0) boot-file and it executed properly?

Any hints welcome!

TIA,
andreas
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