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Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>,
	"Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com>
Subject: Re: PXE Boot FreeBSD with Etherboot
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Norbert Koch wrote:
>>>>It seems there are some problems with using pxeboot in 
>>
>>combination with
>>
>>>>the network boot code from the etherboot project.  I have tried many
>>>>combinations of options with no success.  The result is very 

Last time I looked, etherboot didn't support PXE.
In any case, it cannot support PXE unless it's running from ROM.
Remember that PXE is a ROM BIOS specification; pxe loader
programs (such as pxeboot) make PXE calls to the ROM BIOS
for network operations.

You can probably boot a FreeBSD kernel through etherboot,
but you want to load the kernel directly; don't use pxeboot.

Tim