https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199197
Bug ID: 199197
Summary: FreeBSD should be able to PXE boot directly from ISO
file
Product: Base System
Version: 9.1-RELEASE
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Some People
Priority: ---
Component: kern
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Since 9.0+, FreeBSD has not been able to PXE boot directly from an ISO file.
The kernel will start (having been set up by the loader), but multiuser will
fail because the ISO image was only accessible in protected memory, before the
kernel booted.
It should be copied as a linker file for the kernel to reference, and then geom
should be modified to try to attach to linker files (at least this particular
one), enabling iso9660 tasting to work and therefore mountroot.
I have done some work along these lines, but was not able to finish before
switching to other work. If anyone wants to try to fix it this way (there may
be other ways I'm not aware of), let me know and I will dig the patch out from
the sands of time.
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