Add a note that the console can be changed to a serial port by using

installboot to patch the binary.
Also note that and i386 pxeboot won't load an amd64 kernel.
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.\" $NetBSD: pxeboot.8,v 1.7 2003/11/17 21:29:37 wiz Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: pxeboot.8,v 1.8 2005/11/12 09:12:13 dsl Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2003
.\" Matthias Drochner. All rights reserved.
@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd November 17, 2003
.Dd November 12, 2005
.Os
.Dt PXEBOOT 8 i386
.Sh NAME
@ -207,6 +207,15 @@ Leave the
.Nm
program.
.El
.Pp
By default the output from
.Nm
and from the booted kernel will go to the system's bios console.
This can be changed to be one of the serial ports by using
.Nm installboot
to modify the boot options contained in the
.Pa pxeboot_ia32.bin
file.
.Sh EXAMPLES
The first
.Pa /etc/dhcpd.conf
@ -274,10 +283,15 @@ is only used in the
case and by the
.Nx
kernel to mount the root file system.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /usr/mdec/pxeboot_ia32.bin
.It Pa /usr/mdec/pxeboot_ia32.bin
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr boot 8 ,
.Xr dhcpd 8 ,
.Xr diskless 8
.Xr diskless 8 ,
.Xr installboot 8
.Rs
.%T Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) Specification
.%N Version 2.1
@ -297,3 +311,8 @@ kernel file or if its file format wasn't recognized, it is
impossible to retry the operation because the
.Tn PXE
network stack is already removed from the system RAM.
.Pp
You need the
.Nm
from an i386 build to boot an i386 kernel,
and that from an amd64 build to boot an amd64 kernel.