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

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20081230173522.GA19473 at dragon.NUXI.org>
            "David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: 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.

Well, I'm not sure there'd be a lot of difference anyway.  My laptops
all say some variation on 'for network boot, press <Fm>' at some point
of the boot sequence...

Warner