Re: Can you MOP boot an install kernel directly?

Paul Koning <[email protected]> Mon, 4 Aug 2025 13:01:14 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax
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> On Aug 4, 2025, at 12:36 PM, Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Aug 4, 2025, at 7:45 AM, Johnny Billquist <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> I'll just top-post to be lazy.
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>> First of all, as you know, MOP is the "native" way to netboot DEC machines from back in the day. And MOP sortof fills the place of both DHCP and TFTP in one. But it's more targeted for the explicit need of netbooting and remote management. But in a sense, for VAXen, it would be great if we had the possibility of getting all the netbooting though MOP and not need DHCP and TFTP. Not sure if that is possible, though.
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> Can MOP supply the IP address to the system?  If not, you're not going to be eliminating DHCP (or BOOTP).

MOP has a "parameter load" message that can supply a couple of things, such as the system DECnet node address.  But there is no parameter code for IP address, unfortunately.  Not even in the Phase V version of MOP.

	paul