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On 6/12/2014 10:38 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> Hi all,
> while I try to learn about iPXE, I am wondering if someone already
> managed to boot FreeBSD via the network, else it’s going to be an
> interesting weekend :-)

If you mean http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm, just make sure you are 
booting a relatively recent FreeBSD version (newer than April I think). 
Otherwise, it boots just fine like any other bit of hardware over the 
network.

	---Mike


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