Re: i386: boot using tftp by default when using pxeboot

[Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost>]

marc%msys.ch@localhost said:
> pxeboot_ia32.bin tries to boot 'netbsd' by default, which fails in
> most cases.  It does not make sense imo to try booting a local kernel
> when booting the machine via PXE.

It shouldn't try to boot a local kernel, it does NFS
in this case. I think this makes sense as default behaviour
because it gets the kernel from the root fs this way, as
with a disk.
See the comment in stand/pxeboot/devopen.c.
Or has it been broken?

best regards
Matthias



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