Re: Can you MOP boot an install kernel directly?

[Perry Metzger <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

On 8/4/25 17:43, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2025-08-04 18:08, Perry Metzger wrote:
> > On 8/4/25 10:58, Michael Thompson wrote:
> > > I have used a DEC Infoserver to MOP boot and install VMS on many 
> > > VAXen. Could NetBSD be setup to do the same?
> > That (or something similar) is what I'd like here, yes. Ideally just 
> > MOP boot a NetBSD INSTALL kernel, but if it needs to do the two-step 
> > by MOP booting a boot loader and doing dhcp/tftp to get the INSTALL 
> > kernel that would be fine.
>
> This is how I normally have been netbooting NetBSD on VAXen.

The boot blocks don't currently do tftp though, and as it stands Ragge's 
patches to let you MOP boot the kernel directly are not in place.

Perry