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Hawken
Asked: 2012-04-22 07:56:41 +0800 CST

FreeBSD Netboot over TFTP

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Is there a way to boot FreeBSD over TFTP?

All the instructions I've seen require you to transition to NFS after PXEBOOT has loaded.

freebsd pxe-boot tftp

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    No, you can only grab a kernel image and initial ramdisk over TFTP.

    Once the kernel has loaded it needs somewhere to load the root filesystem from. The FreeBSD kernel only knows how to use UFS, ZFS or NFS as its root filesystem.

    You may be able to create a ramdisk loaded over TFTP from something like mfsBSD to have a UFS image in memory.

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