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Date:      Mon, 25 Apr 2016 23:48:35 +0100
From:      Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
To:        Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org" <freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: qemu-system-sparc64 can boot FreeBSD 10.3!
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On 25/04/16 21:11, Cedric Blancher wrote:

> What about boot from network with NFS root (diskless machines) - does
> this still work with FreeBSD on x86?

SeaBIOS has in-built PXE support so that should work fine on x86,
although sadly OpenBIOS as used by SPARC64/PPC doesn't (yet) have an IP
stack.


ATB,

Mark.




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