Re: Two questions about the Vax installation guide...

Anders Magnusson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Den 2025-08-04 kl. 15:27, skrev Martin Husemann:
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 09:06:56AM -0400, Perry Metzger wrote:
>> (It's also not clear what the distinction between boot and boot.mop is...)
> boot is elf format and not all mopds can handle it (our in-tree one
> can use it just fine).
>
> boot:     ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Digital VAX, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
> boot.mop: data
Yep, intended for people net-booting from VMS.  Not so common these days 
though.
(Maybe Johnny?  Can you mop-boot NetBSD from RSX? :-) )

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