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Date:      Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:00:29 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        kamalp@acm.org
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: use loader to load kernel.gz and mfsroot.gz in an ext2 filesystem
Message-ID:  <20050126180026.GD31269@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050126164930.90112.qmail@web52702.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20050126163048.GB31269@dan.emsphone.com> <20050126164930.90112.qmail@web52702.mail.yahoo.com>

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In the last episode (Jan 26), Kamal R. Prasad said:
> Is it possible to load the loader on redboot, then
> have the loader tftp the kernel over ethernet?

There is a PXE version of the loader (pxeboot) that will load a kernel
from tftp or nfs, but it requires a dhcp server to get the server's IP
and its kernel filename from.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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