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[GH-ISSUE #78] BSD support Net Free and PC #1572

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opened 2026-03-01 18:34:32 +03:00 by kerem · 4 comments

kerem commented

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Originally created by @hlandau on GitHub (Feb 14, 2016).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/netbootxyz/netboot.xyz/issues/78

Would be nice.

Originally created by @hlandau on GitHub (Feb 14, 2016). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/netbootxyz/netboot.xyz/issues/78 Would be nice.

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2026-03-01 18:34:32 +03:00

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2026-03-01 18:34:33 +03:00

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@antonym commented on GitHub (Feb 18, 2016):

Haven't had much success getting NetBSD working with iPXE yet. This seemed close, but didn't work: http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Mboot.c32

Any suggestions?

@antonym commented on GitHub (Feb 18, 2016): Haven't had much success getting NetBSD working with iPXE yet. This seemed close, but didn't work: http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Mboot.c32 Any suggestions?

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2026-03-01 18:34:33 +03:00

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@Stealthii commented on GitHub (Mar 1, 2016):

I had it netbooting once for next68k hardware, but it seems Sal's done work for getting iPXE working smoothly: http://boot.salstar.sk/bsd.ipxe

@Stealthii commented on GitHub (Mar 1, 2016): I had it netbooting once for next68k hardware, but it seems [Sal](http://boot.salstar.sk/)'s done work for getting iPXE working smoothly: http://boot.salstar.sk/bsd.ipxe

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2026-03-01 18:34:33 +03:00

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@thelamer commented on GitHub (Dec 12, 2019):

Old issue I know, but cleaning up.
I just loop tested 6 random images from that menu and none of them worked including netbsd, they all fail out and mount root stages of boot.
I think this project has concentrated on linking ISOs up with memdisk but I am not sure the end to end testing that is performed.

@thelamer commented on GitHub (Dec 12, 2019): Old issue I know, but cleaning up. I just loop tested 6 random images from that menu and none of them worked including netbsd, they all fail out and mount root stages of boot. I think this project has concentrated on linking ISOs up with memdisk but I am not sure the end to end testing that is performed.

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2026-03-01 18:34:33 +03:00

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@thelamer commented on GitHub (Jan 2, 2020):

NetBSD is not possible, they use a custom chainload kernel that expects the kernel it loads to be in a specific file format on a TFTP server.

https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/how_to_install__40__boot__41___netbsd_using_pxelinux/

FreeBSD is kind of the same story with needing NFS for official version, you can get to a splash memdisking the ISOs but you will get a mountroot failure as it looks for the squash in the CD device that does not exist.

TrueOS ISO is huge, they have the same zipped kernel asset style as NetBSD, I think all of that base boot logic is identical.

In summary we are just lucky OpenBSD works slightly using memdisk. IPXE booting will not happen for the rest.

@thelamer commented on GitHub (Jan 2, 2020): NetBSD is not possible, they use a custom chainload kernel that expects the kernel it loads to be in a specific file format on a TFTP server. https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/how_to_install__40__boot__41___netbsd_using_pxelinux/ FreeBSD is kind of the same story with needing NFS for official version, you can get to a splash memdisking the ISOs but you will get a mountroot failure as it looks for the squash in the CD device that does not exist. TrueOS ISO is huge, they have the same zipped kernel asset style as NetBSD, I think all of that base boot logic is identical. In summary we are just lucky OpenBSD works slightly using memdisk. IPXE booting will not happen for the rest.

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