PXE boot FreeBSD without need of NFS server

[Francois Tigeot]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:10:50AM +0200, Mikael Bak wrote:
> Pertti, András,
> Thank You for the useful links!
> Kiitos and Köszönöm szépen :-)
> 
> Gót András wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > AFAIK only the kernel and initrd (in the linux case) can be booted from
> > tftp, that's a PXE feature. When the kernel loaded it takes over and from
> > then on the kernel will need a rootfs from somewhere. I don't think that a
> > tftp rootfs is possible.
> > 
> 
> Yes, I know it's not possible to have the rootfs on tftp. That is not my
>  goal. I only wish to host an image file containing a rootfs that will
> act as a ram disk. Much like the initrd does in the Linux world. The
> rootfs will only contain the things needed to start the installation
> process.

Have a look at ThinBSD. It a mini FreeBSD-5.x system which uses a ramdisk
image as root. It can be booted from a TFTP server, without NFS.

The web site is here: http://thinbsd.zefyris.com/

I use it everyday to run a X terminal.

-- 
Francois Tigeot