Re: Can you MOP boot an install kernel directly?

Perry Metzger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 8/4/25 22:27, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> The network booting (MOP) pulls in the boot program (/boot), and that 
> one then uses dhcp and tftp to pull in the kernel, and then off it goes.

No. The boot program currently lets you netboot off of NFS. It does not 
have a tftp boot option.

Perry
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