Netbooting Vaxen (was Re: OT: Effective Speed of 10BaseT)

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Sun Nov 14 23:09:35 1999

At 05:47 AM 11/15/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Actually, I was wondering something similar myself :) I've got two old
>VAXstation 2000's that i've been trying to netboot and neither one of
>them are cooperating much.. They've both got lance boards that check
>out alright with the ROM diags ("t 0"), link up fine (link light on
>transciever and hub on), but when I try and netboot NetBSD on them, I
>get strange %VMB-F-ERR type messages and it bombs out...

This sounds like your MOP server isn't working as expected. Describe your
whole layout, what system is running mopd? What does mopd say in diagnostic
mode? What file are you using as the boot image?

--Chuck
Received on Sun Nov 14 1999 - 23:09:35 GMT