iPXE booting latest PCengines alu board

[Kamil Czekirda]

Hi,

Please look at my GSoC wiki page:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014/FreeBSD_PXE_preseed

There is kpxe file, you can chainload it using file option in your dhcp server.

It's very simple script:

#!ipxe
dhcp
cpuid --ext 29 && set CPU-ARCH amd64 || set CPU-ARCH i386
set img http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/files/images/10/${CPU-ARCH}/mfsbsd-10.0-RELEASE-${CPU-ARCH}.img
kernel http://volt.iem.pw.edu.pl/~czekirdk/memdisk raw
initrd ${img}
boot

It detects architecture and runs mfsbsd directly from Martin Matuska website.

It's simpliest way to boot different iso or img image of FreeBSD. It
will be nice to have local mirror and make menu with different
releases. I'll prepare menu, but I need few days, I'll inform you.

I think that in next week will be ready iPXE port for FreeBSD and
simply solutions.

I have many scripts to boot ubuntu, debian, etc. and I can help you
with it. It's simple to run FreeBSD from nfs server too. Ask if you
have problems.

Kamil

2014-06-12 17:26 GMT+02:00 Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net>:
> On 6/12/2014 10:38 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> while I try to learn about iPXE, I am wondering if someone already
>> managed to boot FreeBSD via the network, else it’s going to be an
>> interesting weekend :-)
>
>
> If you mean http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm, just make sure you are booting
> a relatively recent FreeBSD version (newer than April I think). Otherwise,
> it boots just fine like any other bit of hardware over the network.
>
>         ---Mike
>
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