Re: PXE

[Matthew Hoskins <mhoskins@microdsi.net>]

Ugh, ive answered this question so many times....

PXE proms will boot ANY OS.  PLease see --> http://cuiwww.unige.ch/info/pc/remote-boot/howto.html

The process is like this:  PXE --> DHCP --> TFTP --> BpBatch --> ANY OS

BpBatch is a piece of software which acts as a intermediate loader for any OS, please see the docs on the above link on where to get the software and how to set it up

Happy Hacking..
-=Matt=-
 

David Gilbert wrote:

>>>>> "ken" == ken  <ken@nlc.net.au> writes:

>> Question: does the mknbi perl thing create something that PXE will
>> understand now?  I don't have an easy way of getting FreeBSD onto a
>> machine... except etherboot... which I currently use from floppy.
>> Can I load the etherboot rom code via PXE?

ken> No. PXE is outside the scope of Etherboot. If you have a PXE ROM
ken> you should be able to network boot already, as I understand it.

Well... The problem is that I can't find anything that direct.
Nothing that loads under PXE (so far) will load FreeBSD.  That
document was the closest I've see so far.  It wants you to:

PXE --> syslinux --> DOS --> etherboot.com --> FreeBSD

(aparently syslinux can load DOS .com files)

Dave.

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