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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.