Speaking of PXE Booting

[unitrunker]

The way PXE boot works with rc.initdiskless is the client does some work to assemble its own filesystem. I'd prefer a PXE boot layout where rc.initdiskless does as little as possible. In other words, PXE client A does not have access to the configs specific to PXE client B and vice-versa. This means doing most of the work on the host side. Ideally, each PXE client would see a different file system via TFTP and NFS.

 

[balanga]

Is there any way to accomodate pxeboot as a menu option for pxelinux ?

 

[unitrunker]

No idea. I'm running freebsd as the pxe client.

 

[MG]

I still have to achieve this with a Raspberry 3 running as commercial display. It uses nfs-data from it's FreeBSD boss. I want to lose the sd-card because it's added risk of failure and theoretically 2 times computer maintainnce.. Did it already as experiment some time ago with other systems. It's much configuration work and I don't remember a lot of it until I see it again.

 

[balanga]

Is there any way to accomodate pxeboot as a menu option for pxelinux ?

Note to self for future reference.

Multi-OS PXE-booting from FreeBSD 12: PXE menu and *BSD (pt. 3)

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LABEL obsd-pxe-install
        MENU LABEL Install OpenBSD 6.8 (PXE)
        KERNEL pxechn.c32
        APPEND bsd/obsd/pxeboot