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	Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Subject: Re: pxe LiveCD setup
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> With grub4dos
> =A0title FreeBSD
> =A0pxe keep
> =A0chainloader --raw (pd)/images/freebsd/boot/pxeboot
>
> it loads pxeboot, but then:
>
> netboot: couldn't probe pxenet0
> pxe_open: netif_open() failed
> ...
> can't load 'kernel'
> OK
>
> So it loads pxeboot, but then pxeboot can't use the pxenet0 device.
>

Your goal in the pxeboot/nfs/livefs was to avoid having to transfer
the large livefs iso?  I won't be much help solving your problem
above, just curious where you're going with your setup.