svn commit: r186598 - head/sys/boot/i386/boot0

[Garrett Cooper]

On Dec 30, 2008, at 9:35, "David O'Brien" <obrien at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:40:40AM -0200, Carlos A. M. dos Santos  
> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Luigi Rizzo <luigi at freebsd.org>  
>> wrote:
>>> Author: luigi
>>> Date: Tue Dec 30 09:40:50 2008
>>> New Revision: 186598
>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/186598
>>>
>> ---8<---
>>> + Add an entry "F6 PXE" when the code is built with -DPXE (which is
>>>   a default now). Technically, F6 boots through INT18, so the  
>>> prompt 'PXE'
>>>   is a bit misleading. Unfortunately the name INT18
>>>   is too long and does not fit in - we could use ROM perhaps.
>>>   The reason I picked 'PXE' is that on many (I believe) new systems
>>>   INT18 calls PXE.
>> ---8<---
>>
>> I think "PXE" will look a bit cryptic for most users. What about  
>> using
>> "Net", instead?
>
> I think PXE is best - its a specfic type of netbooting.  Otherwise,  
> one
> may wonder what type "Net" is.
>
> -- 
> -- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)

PXE is of course the Intel standard method of BOOTP, so we should  
probably only use it for x86 compatible hardware (where this of course  
applies).

Obscuring this with net or netboot only serves to confuse folks who've  
used Apple's method of BOOTP -- Netboot.

If documentation or references are needed to simplify PXE, that can  
always. Be arranged :). Besides it's easy to google.

-Garrett