On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 06:05, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:35:15PM -0500, Disconnect wrote: > > I just got a decstation 5000/240 w/ a cdrom but no hdd and have been > > trying to set it up for nfsroot (under any os). The firmware version > > (KN03-AA V5.1b) is listed by netbsd as not being tftp-capable (and a > > brief test seemed to support that.) > > > > Using mopd to load a variety of linux kernels (both r3k and r4k, debian > > versions, versions off the web, etc) all result in an identical TLBS > > (tlb store) error. (The guys on #mipslinux suggest that sounds like a > > wrong-endian or wrong-cpu issue..) > > Are the linux kernels build with a MOP header on them? AIUI MOP needs a 512 > byte (or so) header which describes the file. If you try to boot a kernel > without it you will get messages something like that.
I suspect that may be the problem. The only real docs I could find were for netbsd, and they said 3 things in 3 places (it'll Just Work, it won't ever work, it'll work but needs a special kernel..) I finally ended up just using the netbsd diskimage method (dd 2M to the front of a drive, boot it, install to a 2nd drive, remove/reformat the first..) I'd much rather be using linux, so if anyone has a mop-ified kernel they want to send me I'll be their bestest friend ;) > I'd like to boot my 2100 using MOP rather than tftp, not because the box won't > actually do tftp but because Linux 2.4 generates UDP headers that it doesn't > like :( > > I haven't tried the NetBSD kernels since I moved to Linux 2.4 and tftp broke. > I > know they have a mop header builder for kernels but I think I've only seen it > used for their VAX port, VAXes generally will only netboot using MOP. Yep, thats all I could find as well.
