Using PC-Sysinstall for automated network installs of FreeBSD

[Warren Block]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Mark Saad wrote:

> On Nov 16, 2012, at 8:44 PM, Warren Block <wblock at 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.