Soekris can netboot via PXE. However, the default pxeboot file
assumes a graphical console. NetBSD 3.0 provides an alternate image
file to use serial console.
pxeboot_ia32_com0.bin
was removed from NetBSD 4.0. The NetBSD 3.0 version is available
here. It can be used to netboot NetBSD
4.0 (and probably current, but untested as of this writing).
There is an undocumented proceedure to change the boot options.
This involves the use of dd(1) to change the configuration section thats
a few pages into the start of the binary. I'll put up those instructions
here if I ever get around to having to modify it.
(And these files really all
shoulde be available under
the installation subdir via official ftp, but they aren't.)