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