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On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:28:28PM +0200, Arne Schwabe wrote:
> Ryan Nowakowski wrote:
> 
> >FreeBSD loader doesn't load a kernel from ext2, fat16/32, or network so
> >it's not usable in this case.
> >  
> >
> you can load the kernel from network via tftp at least with pxe loader
> loads the kernel via tftp.
> 
Yes, the pxe loader can load the kernel via tftp, however that requires
PXE which doesn't meet my original requirements.