Re: Trying to boot Vaxstation using mopd

[Toby Thain <toby%telegraphics.com.au@localhost>]

On 2016-05-31 12:12 PM, Greg Stark wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have obtained a real physical Vaxstation and I'm trying to follow
> the instructions from
> https://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/netboot/mop.html
>
> I've copied the boot loader from
> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.0.1/vax/installation/netboot/boot
>
> mopd seems to respond to download requests and doesn't show any errors
> but just repeatedly gets download requests and serves up the same file
> repeatedly:
> ...
> I'm not sure if I've missed a step. Or maybe there's a better boot
> loader around I could try?

Don't know if it's a related problem, but I had to patch mopd to get it 
to work on my MicroVAX II (the master repo wasn't available at the time):
https://github.com/qu1j0t3/mopd

Here's a howto I wrote up:
https://github.com/qu1j0t3/mopd/blob/master/HOWTO-MicroVAX-II.md

--Toby