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Date:      Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:35:22 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r186598 - head/sys/boot/i386/boot0
Message-ID:  <20081230173522.GA19473@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <e71790db0812300340p5c0fba33xe6fb817ced132afe@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <200812300940.mBU9epuS086194@svn.freebsd.org> <e71790db0812300340p5c0fba33xe6fb817ced132afe@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:40:40AM -0200, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Author: luigi
> > Date: Tue Dec 30 09:40:50 2008
> > New Revision: 186598
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/186598
> >
> ---8<---
> >  + Add an entry "F6 PXE" when the code is built with -DPXE (which is
> >    a default now). Technically, F6 boots through INT18, so the prompt 'PXE'
> >    is a bit misleading. Unfortunately the name INT18
> >    is too long and does not fit in - we could use ROM perhaps.
> >    The reason I picked 'PXE' is that on many (I believe) new systems
> >    INT18 calls PXE.
> ---8<---
> 
> I think "PXE" will look a bit cryptic for most users. What about using
> "Net", instead?

I think PXE is best - its a specfic type of netbooting.  Otherwise, one
may wonder what type "Net" is.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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