PXE Boot FreeBSD with Etherboot

[Norbert Koch]

> It seems there are some problems with using pxeboot in combination with
> the network boot code from the etherboot project.  I have tried many
> combinations of options with no success.  The result is very similar to
> the following photo I found:
> 
> http://photos.night-shade.org.uk/photo.php?photo=6364
> 
> I have tried it both on my local machine and in vmware with the same
> result.  It seems that somehow etherboot is not setting up the
> environment the way pxeboot expects it too.  Now the native pxe boot
> code in vmware does load pxeboot correctly and I have successfully
> booted freebsd in vmware, however I can't get the pxe boot code on my
> network card to load at all, hence my need for etherboot.  Also, both
> pxeboot from FreeBSD 4.11 and 6.0-BETA2 crash the same way.  I'm
> assuming this is really a bug in etherboot, but I'm not sure how to get
> a crash dump to play with.  With vmware, it seems like I should be able
> to save a memory image to examine, but I'm not sure how to do that.
> Any ideas on a fix for this?

Just my experience. I never handled to successfully pxeboot FreeBSD.

Norbert