Bug 62412

Summary:	one of the diskless boot methods described in the Handbook is flawed
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Victor Sudakov <sudakov>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Dru Lavigne <dru>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	sudakov
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Victor Sudakov 2004-02-06 04:00:27 UTC

It is known that booting the kernel without loader(8) is fraught with
errors. However Handbook Section 19.7 recommends booting kernel via
etherboot as one of the two legitimate methods.

Fix: 

Only booting via PXE and pxeboot(8) should be described in the
Handbook. All references to etherboot should be deleted.
How-To-Repeat: When did you last try to boot a diskless kernel prepared as
described in 19.7.1.4 via etherboot? It just does not work after
loading. See news:<bftrpf$1hik$1@ddt.demos.su> and other numerous reports.

Comment 1 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer

2008-01-21 17:48:26 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->trhodes

Take, I have a test environment at work I can set this up on.

Comment 2 Dru Lavigne freebsd_committer

2014-03-05 19:30:04 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: trhodes->dru

I'll take this one.

Comment 3 Dru Lavigne freebsd_committer

2014-03-05 19:31:36 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

This chapter has been recently edited and no longer contains 
any references to etherboot.