On Dec 30, 2008, at 9:35, "David O'Brien" <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:40:40AM -0200, Carlos A. M. dos Santos
wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Luigi Rizzo <[email protected]>
wrote:
Author: luigi
Date: Tue Dec 30 09:40:50 2008
New Revision: 186598
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/186598
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+ Add an entry "F6 PXE" when the code is built with -DPXE (which is
a default now). Technically, F6 boots through INT18, so the
prompt 'PXE'
is a bit misleading. Unfortunately the name INT18
is too long and does not fit in - we could use ROM perhaps.
The reason I picked 'PXE' is that on many (I believe) new systems
INT18 calls PXE.
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I think "PXE" will look a bit cryptic for most users. What about
using
"Net", instead?
I think PXE is best - its a specfic type of netbooting. Otherwise,
one
may wonder what type "Net" is.
--
-- David ([email protected])
PXE is of course the Intel standard method of BOOTP, so we should
probably only use it for x86 compatible hardware (where this of course
applies).
Obscuring this with net or netboot only serves to confuse folks who've
used Apple's method of BOOTP -- Netboot.
If documentation or references are needed to simplify PXE, that can
always. Be arranged :). Besides it's easy to google.
-Garrett
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