Stuart, this is a good point. I did some research and it appears this
is the case. I found this document very useful:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html

Too bad I found about it after installing it the hard way :( I might
give it a try just for the kicks.

Thanks,
Ovidiu

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2012-02-29, Ovidiu Predescu <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Method 1: PXE install
>>
>> I first tried to use PXE to do the install. I have a small machine
>> that runs dnsmasq as DHCP and TFTP server. I downloaded the
>> pfSense-2.0.1-RELEASE-i386.iso.gz and installed the contents of the
>> file in a directory accessible to the TFTP server. I'm serving the
>> boot/pxeboot file from the tftp server. The net6501 box finds the
>> pxeboot file, but it gets stuck shortly after:
>>
>> Building the boot loader arguments
>> Relocating the loader and the BTX
>> Starting the BTX loader
>>
>> It looks like the next load phase never happens.
>
> I don't know the FreeBSD/pfSense boot process particularly well,
> but that seems like it most likely *is* booting, just isn't using
> the serial console. Look for a boot-loader parameter to adjust this.
>
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