On Nov 17, 2012, at 12:19 AM, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Mark Saad wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 16, 2012, at 8:44 PM, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Warren Block wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Trying to start this from SYSLINUX almost works.  My menu config just does
>>> 
>>> Actually, it does work on a real machine.  It stalls on a VirtualBox VM 
>>> during or after the NFS root mount.
>> 
>> Strange , I will test it on virtualbox when I get some time next week . I 
>> did a lot of the testing initially on VMware esxi 4.0 and I did not have any 
>> issues related to VM stuff . What version of vbox did you use ? What network 
>> interface choice did you use in vbox ?
> 
> VirtualBox 4.1.22, FreeBSD 9-stable amd64 host.  Only the "PCnet-FAST III 
> (Am79C973)" can pxe-boot, and only in bridged mode.

Does this nic pxe boot other versions of FreeBSD ?  Isn't there a way to make 
it think it has a intel em nic?

---
Mark saad | mark.s...@longcount.org

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