svn commit: r186598 - head/sys/boot/i386/boot0
David O'Brien
obrien at freebsd.org
Tue Dec 30 17:35:23 UTC 2008
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:40:40AM -0200, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Luigi Rizzo <luigi at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Author: luigi
> > Date: Tue Dec 30 09:40:50 2008
> > New Revision: 186598
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/186598
> >
> ---8<---
> > + Add an entry "F6 PXE" when the code is built with -DPXE (which is
> > a default now). Technically, F6 boots through INT18, so the prompt 'PXE'
> > is a bit misleading. Unfortunately the name INT18
> > is too long and does not fit in - we could use ROM perhaps.
> > The reason I picked 'PXE' is that on many (I believe) new systems
> > INT18 calls PXE.
> ---8<---
>
> I think "PXE" will look a bit cryptic for most users. What about using
> "Net", instead?
I think PXE is best - its a specfic type of netbooting. Otherwise, one
may wonder what type "Net" is.
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