can ipxe boot a FreeBSD kernel?

[mcb30]

(2012-03-02 19:28)errorsmith Wrote:  So I want to know if ipxe is able to direct-boot a FreeBSD Kernel (8.2-RELEASE-amd64 and 9.0-RELEASE-amd64) without chainloading FreeBSD's own pxeboot and, if so, how to do it. This is what I tried (and didn't work):

Code:

#!ipxe
dhcp
set root-path 192.168.23.1:/usr/data/tftpboot/clients/fbsd64
kernel tftp://192.168.23.1/clients/fbsd64/boot/kernel/kernel
boot

This locks the machine completely.
Any hints, ideas?

From memory, and quite possibly inaccurate:

32-bit FreeBSD kernels are Multiboot-compliant, which allows them to be booted by iPXE. 64-bit kernels are not, and require a dedicated FreeBSD bootloader.

Does it work if you use another intermediate bootloader such as pxelinux.0 to load the FreeBSD kernel?

Michael