PXE server to boot linux system

[Bruce Ferrell]

On 01/30/2015 06:46 AM, Märk Owen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to setup a FreeBSD system as a TFTP server which would allow
> me to boot a Ubuntu root partition on the network. All the
> documentation I've found either concerns FreeBSD as both client and
> server or a FreeBSD server booting installation ISOs.
>
> I don't want to boot ISO images, I want to boot a real linux system on
> the network. Is that possible?
>
> Thanks.
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I'm relatively certain dhcp and tftp aren't different freebsd to linux, so what you need to do is configure dhpc/tftp and properly place the pxelinux.0 file on the tftp server,
then place either a specif pxelinux config file per the instructions in the link below

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DisklessUbuntuHowto