Re: Can you MOP boot an install kernel directly?
Johnny Billquist <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax |
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| Organization | SoftJAR AB |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 2025-08-05 15:13, Perry Metzger wrote: > On 8/5/25 00:52, Johnny Billquist wrote: >> On 2025-08-04 19:26, Perry Metzger wrote: >>> 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 >>>> goingto 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. >> >> I'm starting to suspect you don't understand the full process of the >> booting. > > I wrote one version of the x86 boot blocks. Good. >> The boot block is a really simple piece of code that resides in the >> first block(s) of a disk, and the sole purpose of that code is to read >> in the /boot image. > > We're not talking about disk booting here at all. Good. Because then there is no boot block involved at all. 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