Subject: Re: i386 diskless booting
To: Chris Lloyd , NetBSD Help <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Gillham <gillham@vaultron.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/24/2002 14:04:23
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:35:52PM +0100, Chris Lloyd wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to diskless boot my i386 machine. I think I only need the first
> stage bootloader, because I actually want to load memtest86 over a roomful
> of machines over the network. But I can't work out where to get a diskless
> bootloader from. Will /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym work? Or do I need a special
> networky one?

If memtest86 can be loaded by NetBSD's boot code, you can just use the PXE
boot loader and go from there.

-Andrew