Sounds more like a tech@ post.

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> On Jul 27, 2016, at 9:59 PM, Telnet Userid <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Greetings, OpenBSD!
> 
> Regarding my previous email that hasn't been answered, I just want to
> confirm that OpenBSD 5.9 release bsd.rd kernel can't be booted via PXE
> on EFI system.
> 
> iPXE in EFI mode doesn't recognize bsd.rd as kernel. On bios mode, it's
> possible to chainload pxeboot.
> 
> GRUB is able to boot OpenBSD bsd.rd kernel directly on EFI over the
> network (via kopenbsd) but it's unusable since GRUB boots OpenBSD in
> blindmode. It means that no text is shown at the screen at all and this
> makes it impossible to use it.
> 
> GRUB has no problem booting bsd.rd kernel either locally or over the
> network in BIOS mode.
> 
> OpenBSD's own pxeboot doesn't work on EFI system.
> 
> OpenBSD's BOOTX64.EFI doesn't seem to know if it's loaded via network so
> that it doesn't work EFI network booting at the moment.

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