Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:50:38 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Loader reading FAT Message-ID: <200906162350.40221.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi, I am attempting to get create a FAT FS USB stick to install FreeBSD from. I have it working however I would like to pare back the size of the syslinux memdisk it loads. Currently it has the loader, kernel & sysinstall MFS which is not very small (this isn't an issue for me but I find it less elegant than I'd like). I think it should be possible to just have the loader in the syslinux memdisk and then have that read the rest from the USB stick. Unfortunately I can't get the loader to read a FAT partition which surprises me because I think it should be able to.. I believe that libstand can do it (I can see the code :) however when I list the USB stick device I get an empty directory listing. The partition is marked as type 0x0c (FAT32 LBA) and the loader sees it in lsdev. The FS was made with newfs_msdos with no arguments other than the device. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBKN6o45ZPcIHs/zowRAp/UAJ4zc876TqMQhm13tlxMtLEmvWjdrACeLWmc ZVp7X74PEe2Ibq8IXfS5y3o= =n7Ic -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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