Package: mopd Version: 1:2.5.3-21 Severity: normal Hi,
I tried mopd with the NetBSD 6.1.3 (latest release) vax bootloader. Apparently Debian mopd doesn't support it. When I used installation/netboot/boot from NetBSD 6.1.3, mopd claimed to send it, but the VAX (VAXstation 4000 VLC) could not use it and looped forever, refetching the image and failing each time. When I fell back to a pre-Elf32 bootloader (from NetBSD 1.4.1), mopd sent it and the VAX booted it just fine. I asked the port-...@netbsd.org list about the problem and they concluded it is likely mopd that is at fault because our mopd predates the one in netbsd that added support for Elf32. Please see the response by Martin Husemann here: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2014/02/03/msg002006.html Unfortunately, Martin's suggestion that I try compiling NetBSD's mopd on Debian does not work. The specific errors are probably not going to be interesting, so I omit them -- it looks like NetBSD has a fundamentally different build toolchain for starters, and there are probably other issues besides; I just declared it a lost cause and decided to write this bug instead. Please add Elf32 support to the Debian mopd so I can use it to boot a modern free operating system on this hardware. Thanks, Ben -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: amd64 Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages mopd depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.52 ii libc6 2.17-97 ii libelfg0 0.8.13-5 mopd recommends no packages. mopd suggests no packages. -- debconf information: mopd/other_interface: * mopd/interface: eth0 mopd/bad_interface: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
