From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 14 01:04:11 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 107FD1065680; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:04:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 757F98FC1E; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:04:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-137-119.lns11.adl6.internode.on.net [121.45.137.119]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n5E147q5056799 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:34:08 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Adrian Chadd Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:33:54 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200906140015.44560.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart23491524.SBdZhJSTAu"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200906141034.01890.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.237 () AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from FAT(32) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:04:11 -0000 --nextPart23491524.SBdZhJSTAu Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > I believe there's some NetBSD FAT32 aware loader. Dianora stumbled > across it when I was talking about this very thing earlier. I thought the FreeBSD loader spoke FAT32 already, although now I go and=20 have a proper look I see otherwise :( > I've been meaning to trial it out actually. It sure would be > interesting to boot a kernel/mfs off of a DOS bootable FAT USB. I think you can do it if you makefs /boot and feed it to syslinux using=20 memdisk (I plan on trying this today). I was thinking the loader had FAT support though so I could just get=20 Syslinux to load the loader then it would do the rest. Although heck=20 how hard can read only FAT support be to write? :) =2D-=20 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 --nextPart23491524.SBdZhJSTAu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBKNEyB5ZPcIHs/zowRAtxwAJ9dzxf1GEJMAaG9pQXnEdDvU+q1FwCgmtgl U//jR4M/KGphQMI4x2S4KKY= =J+uN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart23491524.SBdZhJSTAu--