freebsd stable - May 2006 - PXE boot images: 6.1 i386/amd64

For those of you wishing to PXE boot 6.1 RELEASE I have made some boot
images that work easily with pxelinux (syslinux) PXE set-up.

They are around 30MB in size each and built from the -bootonly ISO images.

Note these simply boot the whole image, and don't use the pxeboot binary.

In fact I've test booted both on an LGA775 3.0GHz EM64T box and they both
boot fine.

Download and a quick pxelinux set-up howto:

  http://blog.rackred.com/2006/05/25/pxe-boot-freebsd-6x/
  http://blog.rackred.com/2006/04/21/pxe-boot-freebsd-howto/

I'm sure I'll have some feedback if they don't work, but I'd
like to
hear from anyone using them successfully too. :)

-Paul-

In article <20919.1148565590@xciv.org>,
	paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati) writes:
> For those of you wishing to PXE boot 6.1 RELEASE I have made some boot
> images that work easily with pxelinux (syslinux) PXE set-up.
[..]
> Download and a quick pxelinux set-up howto:
> 
>   http://blog.rackred.com/2006/04/21/pxe-boot-freebsd-howto/
Seeing as 5.5 has just appeared I've made some 5.5 i386/amd64 images
available too:

  http://blog.rackred.com/2006/04/18/pxe-boot-freebsd-5x/

-Paul-

Am 25. Mai 2006 um 14:59:50 +0100 schrieb Paul Civati:
> For those of you wishing to PXE boot 6.1 RELEASE I have made some boot
> images that work easily with pxelinux (syslinux) PXE set-up.
Thank you very much!

First time since several years I'm able again to install a FreeBSD at my
site.

My PXELINUX menu looks like this now

   $Id: mkpxe,v 1.7 2004/07/01 18:01:02 nora Exp $

         m5  INST  - Mandriva Limited Edition 2005 (10.2)
         m6  INST  - Mandriva 2006.0
         mc  INST  - Mandriva 2006.X (Cooker)
         f5  INST  - Fedora Core 5 Installation
     debian  INST  - Debian Installer
       fbsd  INST  - FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE
       dose  WORK  - DOS Werkzeug-Diskette
        gag  TOOL  - GAG Boot-Manager 4.6
        mem  TOOL  - MEM86 Speichertest, http://www.memtest86.com/
         a9  AUTO  - Autoinstallation Mandrake Linux 9.2
         a0  AUTO  - AutoInstallation Mandrake Linux 10.0
         a1  AUTO  - AutoInstallation Mandrake Linux 10.1
         a5  AUTO  - AutoInstallation Mandriva Limited Edition 2005 (10.2)
         a6  AUTO  - AutoInstallation 2006.0
         ac  AUTO  - AutoInstallation 2006.X (Cooker)
       f5ks  AUTO  - Fedora Core 5 Kickstart-Installation

   boot:

I didn't need the C/H/S options in the 'append'-line for your 6.1
image.

Liebe Gr??e, Nora.

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