PXE on 7.0 problem and solution

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:30:26PM -0800, Tim Clewlow wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Installing 7.0 via PXE has a slight problem that is easily worked around. The
> file /boot/mfsroot.gz on the installation media needs to be unzipped to make
> PXE boot via tftp/nfs work. Otherwise the loader ultimately complains that it
> cant find the device to boot from. For example, if you have the installation
> media living at /usr/pxe/nfs/ on the PXE server, then do:

I documented this in my "how to get FreeBSD to install via PXE and
serial console" document:

http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/pxeboot_serial_install.html

I opened a PR at the time of this discovery as well:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/120127

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