Subject: Re: how to boot into netbsd installer using pxe?
To: None <tech-install@netbsd.org>
From: Jed Davis <jdev@panix.com>
List: tech-install
Date: 07/24/2005 13:41:14
felix-netbsd@fefe.de writes:

> Hi!
>
> I would like to offer a network based install service in our LAN here,
> and I would like it to be able to install NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and
> Gentoo.  I have a PXE environment booting Grub 0.97, which can boot a
> NetBSD kernel.
>
> So far, so good.
>
> But the NetBSD kernel (I use the GENERIC install kernel), after
> detecting the hardware, asks me what device to boot from.

Have you tried the INSTALL kernel?  It includes an md(4) root image
and boots into sysinst.


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