[syslinux] Network booting FreeBSD with gpxelinx almost works (fwd)

Helmut Hullen Hullen at t-online.de
Tue Sep 28 00:28:00 PDT 2010


Hallo, Daniel,

Du meintest am 26.09.10:


> Indeed with a configuration file
> in pxelinux.cfg like this:

>    default freebsd
>    label freebsd
>      PXE pxeboot

> and the root path still specified as a DHCP option, FreeBSD 8.1 does
> boot. If I replace the first line with:

>    UI menu.c32

> the client does display the menu but if one hits return to select the
> single item offered the client merely hangs for a minute, then
> announces "boot failure".

Just an untested idea:

    default freebsd
    UI menu.c32

    label freebsd
      PXE pxeboot

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut




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