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You accidentally deleted your production kernel?
Both your new and backup kernel are trash?

No worries. You could always use a FreeBSD setup or bootonly CD to load a fallback kernel from there.
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On a Sun Ultra 5 keyboard and screen are used as default input/output devices. This causes the serial port not to be used by default, at least not unless you send a keypress over an attached terminal.

To change this behaviour, two values need to be changed in OpenBoot.
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Building pxelinux and memdisk on FreeBSD is not as straight forward as on Linux. A fair amount of additional handwork is involved.

But don’t worry, all steps required to master this task are outlined below.
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Usually ISO’s of most Linux distros use isolinux as boot loader, so these may be served up easily for pxe bootstrap through pxelinux/memdisk.

For FreeBSD this does not hold true, so the vanilla ISO’s must be converted before they can be bootstrapped.
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