[Simh] Netbooting the SIMH VAX emulator

[Hans Rosenfeld]

On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 12:17:31PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> On 5 July 2013 23:46, Joel Heikkila <jjheik at gmail.com> 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 and the machine SIMH was running on
> > is FreeBSD sparc64, they were both on the same hub.  I'm using the latest
> > SIMH code from Github.  I tried it with both the "vax" µVAX 3900 emulator
> > and the "microvax2" emulator.
> >
> > First, the MOP bootloader from every NetBSD since I think 1.5.3 is broken
> > such as
> > http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0.2/vax/installation/netboot/boot
> > (unless I'm misconfiguring it or downloading the wrong file), so you have to
> > dig into the archives to find a working bootloader such as from 1.5.3
> > http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-archive/NetBSD-1.5.2/vax/installation/netboot/boot.mop
> 
> I know the netboot bootloader was broken for a while, but I'm sure I
> netbooted a 4000/90 using the 6.0 bootloader. Its *possible* it was
> fixed sometime after 6.0 so it could have been in 6.1. Do you get the
> same error trying the 6.1 bootloader?

I fixed this in 2006, and the fixed version was shipped with 4.0.


Hans


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