From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 6 12:38:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7529316A404 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 12:38:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from florenzi@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 355FA13C458 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 12:38:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from florenzi@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so797261wxc for ; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 05:38:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=UYlWkSbMt71kMdhpUhRtxj0YogbJseR/LSjNkm0h/+InscVFHylPzlD1h3Zv3yhCXJApcwro/D9boJSw7KBtuVOHcvijtPNdyY2Ae+Ss7r9hcX+olA/LBz409CB7VQkMqwu8Qpq3S9LKGwZZIf8cE6uicj5mPGh+kHWUKzOsrcE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=EzHuwdZv/OZl6a1ojbkjQrkra3CIOnhl+pe8JDSsMn766M68tKgm++4rjw4MfXhDxZ9WgqvLqgHcIOk3bzLkhMF1I+75pNJxaXJgWF9KqmYkp0lrUbVmto+3nkWNw+TXjKdqzNnc45Kprds7loyIiADA5m6EwPD0873wJpG4KSQ= Received: by 10.78.151.3 with SMTP id y3mr501503hud.1175861330258; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 05:08:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.106.1 with HTTP; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 05:08:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3a386af20704060508h607fbb49k95f223927da5a223@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 14:08:50 +0200 From: "Federico Lorenzi" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Loading a kernel off a FAT partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:38:02 -0000 Hi there I am basically trying to load FreeBSD off a FAT partition. First I start up GRUB and then in GRUB select to load /loader off the partition. Loader starts up fine, but here's where the trouble starts. While loader has been loaded perfectly, It doesnt seem to be able to read the FAT partition, even though browsing through the source code I see FAT support in loader and libstand. When i try to load /kernel, it says it can't find it, and attempting an ls results in " bad path '' ". If i load /loader from a FreeBSD partition with GRUB, everything works peachy. Upon googling the web for more info, i found http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-January/010011.html however it seems as if no solution was reached. Any help on the matter would be much appreciated. Federico