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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com>
Subject: Re: gPXE booting FreeBSD?
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On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Rick Miller wrote:

> Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have
> pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts?

gpxelinux.0 is what I've used in my PXE article.  The latest version I 
tried was from SYSLINUX 4.04.  gPXE is loaded as a secondary boot loader 
because it is more versatile than the typical TFTP-only loaders.  In 
other words, the client PXE boots and loads gPXE.

http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/pxe.html

This is set up to boot into a menu.  I have not tried direct booting 
without the menu.