From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 13 16:05:21 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 72CCB106566C for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:05:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A8718FC08 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:05:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 3so1461028qwe.7 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:05:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JgYbnCfD2CyCzclpKMKzS2vsR1Hg7osJPYMr51J+g9A=; b=cpW4bpfq6zUbROS26BrIFvbBdRl4MAxH6ZWBV4EiUxJahN4IwUWUrbobveFjVfamsJ kuuyE9XJg6iZQpCsH/8hJpPQ0Kwp21Flp9qtZxTIZqAluL3z2mX5JNB22MA9W15PQsBA fztgo7wzIxYEEtUySge5RxyJ0VFitx4CWlibU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=CgAt5aQvqEjrQb7MEGvyXEOIPJVri90tvWgXuPQ2K1z5FL8V0uhBaTlLtcVeCacspu W2y3hvdji9wTDIw3k22ToNCInU8Pi79wBBHyyKm3AsSwzBeblWoLo1BnAjmDgkbtXOK1 hwCbSN5XYZ+YN5MhIy2vFsce/zcyQdQBM4NH0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.96.10 with SMTP id f10mr987308qcn.72.1244907210023; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:33:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200906140015.44560.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200906140015.44560.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:33:29 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3512c6f16a02d236 Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: "Daniel O'Connor" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:05:21 -0000 I believe there's some NetBSD FAT32 aware loader. Dianora stumbled across it when I was talking about this very thing earlier. 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. Adrian 2009/6/13 Daniel O'Connor : > Does anyone have a recipe for such a thing? > I currently have a split FAT32/UFS install USB stick but I'd like to get > it to just FAT32 if possible.. > > I think I can do it once I can run the loader - I can then load an MFS > and use UZIP for the FSs and so on.. > > I have been playing with Syslinux but it doesn't like > loading /boot/loader as a linux kernel and I'm not sure which format to > try. > > I think I can get it to work using the memdisk syslinux thing but that > seems like a kludge.. > > -- > 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." > =A0-- Andrew Tanenbaum > GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C >