> Attached herewith are patches to enable netbooting of FreeBSD via
>the pxeboot mechanism using etherboot-5.0.4 on all (etherboot-5.0.4) supporte
>d
>ethernet cards.
>
> To enable, compile the utilities in /sys/boot/i386 with the enviorment
>variable `ETHERBOOT_PXEEMU' set. Compile etherboot with `FREEBSD_PXEEMU'
>defined in the Config file.
Thanks Rohit, that's very interesting. I looked through your changes and
they are fully #ifdefed so I will probably have no objections to merging
this change into the next version.
>Please note! This works only with FreeBSD pxeldr style btx clients.
Can anybody analyse on what it would take to modify the code to work
with pxelinux?
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