[Info-vax] Infoserver 150

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-10-21 00:52, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> Success!!
>
> I have my Infoserver running.  Problem was the bootflags.  Default
> is not 0 and the battery in this box is, obviously, dead.  Set BFLG
> to D000000 and it boots just fine.  Also found the Operations Manual
> online so I was able to get by not knowing the password.  Learned
> quite a bit already, like I can have a pagefile on the Infoserver
> for my VXT Xterminal.  I wasn't even aware this was possible.  Might
> make it even more usable than it already was.  Now to see if I can
> figure out how to boot other devices. One of my first testis going
> to be trying to load a XINU Kernel into a PDP-11 over the ethernet.
>
> Let the fun begin!!

I wonder if you'll have much luck loading Xinu that way. I would suspect 
that the MOP server in the Infoserver does not serve random binaries, 
but they need to be in some understood format, since the MOP protocol as 
such pass some additional packets with various information, as well as 
each data packet being in a specific format with some metadata.

Also, I doubt Xinu would be very impressed by being netbooted, but that 
would be a secondary question.

But this is all speculation on my part from half forgotten memories 
about how the MOP protocol looks like.

	Johnny

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