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Subject: Re: PXE Boot FreeBSD with Etherboot
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Norbert Koch wrote:

> 
> Just my experience. I never handled to successfully pxeboot FreeBSD.

I have been completely successful with 4.8, 4.11, 5.4 and 6.0

using dhcpd and tftp(from inetd) and NFS for exporting the filesystem
(i.e. the default setup)  I've done it on Intel and IBM motherboards,
and others with Intel NIC cards.