phaq

Recently I invested some development time on my company’s PXE-based network boot system. While pxelinux serves as a general purpose network boot loader at our site, current demands required further extension beyond it’s capabilities. The main reason for this was the inability of pxelinux to be used for certain bootstrap scenarios. As an example to this we may note FreeBSD. While it can be booted from floppy images or an hd-converted ISO-image via pxelinux’s memdisk loader, this actually has some serious limitations.
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