Re: Booting a NetBSD installer from pxelinux

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 03:56:07PM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been trying to boot a netbsd INSTALL kernel from pxelinux, but so
> far I haven't got much success. I've tried with 6.0BETA amd64 INSTALL
> kernels and it seems to be compiled without MULTIBOOT options, which
> makes them useless with pxelinux. I've tried adding "options
> MULTIBOOT" to the sys/arch/amd64/conf/INSTALL conf file, but the
> resulting kernel is still not booting with pxelinux. I'm using the
> following pxelinux configuration:
> 
> label netbsd6-install
>         kernel mboot.c32
>         append rogerpau/netbsd-INSTALL

FWIW, I load the netbsd bootloader from pxelinux, which then loads the
NetBSD kernel:
label netbsd
  kernel netbsdpxe.0

netbsdpxe.0 being /usr/mdec/pxeboot_ia32.bin
This then allows me to load the kernel I want, load ramdisk modules, etc ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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