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

Den 2025-08-05 kl. 06:45, skrev Johnny Billquist:
> On 2025-08-04 15:32, Anders Magnusson wrote:
>> 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? :-) )
>
> Interesting question. I would expect so, but you'd need to get the 
> image in the proper format for the RSX MOP server. Doable, but I doubt 
> there is enough interest to go down that path. :-)
>
> But if someone really wanted to, I guess I could create a tool to 
> convert images. VMS would use the same image format, I believe. 
> DECserver images from DEC were possible to be provided from both RSX 
> and VMS by the same file.
The boot program is available in MOP format.  Would that work? :-)

https://archive.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-archive/NetBSD-1.4/vax/installation/netboot/boot.mop

-- R