On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, Greg Stark wrote: > The hardest part was getting mopd on Linux to serve up the NetBSD boot > loader properly. The mopd for Linux didn't support ELF images and the > NetBSD boot loader isn't in mopd format in more recent versions of > NetBSD like it was in older versions. Now it's just ELF. But it's > finally working. If you use NetBSD to serve mopd this isn't an issue. > If you want to use Linux I can send you an mopd format copy of the > boot loader.
FWIW, I had to deal with a buggy DECstation REX firmware revision which crashes on an attempt to use TFTP for booting (plus FDDI network hardware such as DEFZA, etc. only supports MOP booting by design), so I have added ELF support to Linux `mopd' some 15 years ago, to be able to netboot Linux kernels with no hassle. I guess it's the matter of finding the right patches then, and I'm sorry to hear you had issues despite that you shouldn't have. As I have figured out earlier this year only said ELF support patch as well as some other improvements were imported by Debian soon after I made them, and then the package maintainer broke them later on with another patch applied on top. Obviously nobody noticed or cared to report the breakage and I wasn't aware myself as I have only ever used my own RPM packages which I have created in the first place and then built from sources on a RedHat system. Maciej
