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Subject: Re: gPXE booting FreeBSD?
From: Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com>
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On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Does anyone have any experience booting FreeBSD via gPXE and have
> pointers to relevant documentation and/or blog posts?

Thanks for all your replies.  Our current direction appears to be one
of modifying the FreeBSD bootonly ISO to perform installs and load it
from gPXE as follows...

The menu will appear something like (from memory, syntax may be wrong):

kernel memdisk
imgargs memdisk raw iso
initrd http path to the ISO

Once we have it tested and implemented, I'll likely blog the subject
at http://blog.hostileadmin.com/

-- 
Take care
Rick Miller