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On Thu, 1 Aug 2013, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

>
> On 01/08/2013, at 9:04, <dteske@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> Have you tried mboot?
>>
>> No I have not.
>>
>> Do you know anyone that has got it to work?
>
>
> Supposedly someone got it to work because there is an entry in the syslinux wiki
> http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Mboot.c32#FreeBSD_example

I'm following the threads on both lists, and that example looks more 
like a generic template than an actual, working command. 
"kernel_option", for example.