Re: Can you MOP boot an install kernel directly?

Johnny Billquist <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax
Organization SoftJAR AB
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.

   Johnny

-- 
Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: [email protected]             ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.