On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:05:47AM +0000, 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. Afaik the mopd which got a lobotomy by Marciej is generating that header automagically ... > 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 :( Havent heard of that before - How does that show ? Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912 Nine nineth on september the 9th Welcome to the new billenium
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