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From: Doug A. <amb...@am...> - 2002-02-21 16:16:11
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Ken Yap writes: | > 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? I can't comment on pxelinux but I was able to boot pxegrub with it (I know that isn't much of a test since pxegrub only uses the PXE stuff to load the image into memory and grub deals with the NIC via the Etherboot drivers). To do this I made a change to the patches so if the type was not identified then I assume it is a PXE type. Doing a hexdump of some pxeloaders I didn't find anything in common to identify the type easily. Doug A. |
