[Simh] mopd sources - Re: Netbooting the SIMH VAX emulator

[Toby Thain]

On 05/07/13 6:46 PM, Joel Heikkila wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just on a whim, I decided to try to netboot NetBSD on the VAX emulator.
> The mopd/dhcpd/NFS server is FreeBSD amd64 ...
>
> I got mopd to serve up the bootloader, the bootloader to boot and to get
> bootp configuration info from the dhcpd server.  Checking with
> Wireshark, the emulated VAX then makes a NFS mount request and then goes
> silent on Ethernet, printing endlessly on the console "stray interrupt:
> ...
>
> Has anyone successfully netbooted any VAX OS under the SIMH emulators?
>   It's not much of pressing issue since I'm just having some fun, but it
> has made me curious.  Maybe this counts as a bug report of sorts.

What version of mopd are you using? I had trouble booting NetBSD on a 
MicroVAX II without patching the sources that I could find. The upstream 
sources were offline at the time ... have not checked if they have come 
back.

https://github.com/qu1j0t3/mopd

I don't think my problems were the same as yours,  though.

--T



>
> Thanks,
>
> Joel
>
>
>
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