Re: bhyve no longer doing netboot/ipxe

Daniel Braniss <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Jul 2026 07:33:52 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers
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> On 1 Jul 2026, at 22:47, John Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Jul 1, 2026, at 3:15 AM, Daniel Braniss <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> after spending hours with several claude/google/etc which have too much misinformation,
>> is there a right way to do ipxe boot which still works fine when the host is 14.3 but no longer with 15.1
>> thanks,

if the server is 14.3 all is fine, but if the server is 15.1 it only tries to boot from disk, which at the moment is empty, so it fails.

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> I don’t know but can you provide more details on what you’re doing specifically that works? Is changing the FreeBSD version of the bhyve hypervisor to 15.1 the only change in the not working scenario? What happens / do you see any errors?
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> JN
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