Re: Can you MOP boot an install kernel directly?
Perry Metzger <[email protected]>
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On 8/4/25 12:36, Jason Thorpe wrote: >> On Aug 4, 2025, at 7:45 AM, Johnny Billquist<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'll just top-post to be lazy. >> >> 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. > Can MOP supply the IP address to the system? If not, you're not going to be eliminating DHCP (or BOOTP). Certainly, but it's nice not to have to load boot blocks that then just load the kernel if you can just load the kernel in one step. The OS will use dhclient to get its address. Perry