[HECnet] Which DECnet interfaces support remote, unattended, booting?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-05-17 19:05, Bob Armstrong wrote:
Johnny Billquist wrote:
"A Trigger Instruction (remote console request to boot) can
be executed if the local host system contains the appropriate
BOOT ROM for loading the boot code from the DELQA module."

    Sounds like they're saying that the DELQA just does a BINIT and then it's
up to the boot ROM to figure out what happens after that.

Read through more stuff, and apart from the fact that the DELQA also provide boot code for the PDP-11 (albeit in a different way than the Unibus ones), it actually pulls the BDCOK, to it simulates a power fail.

And then the host is supposed to request the DELQA to dump the boot code into memory, and then jump into it by itself.

	Johnny