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Date:      Thu, 1 Aug 2013 09:02:08 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Booting FreeBSD with Syslinux
Message-ID:  <72D1BC68-3E5A-4DCA-8585-3CA7D3A2D51D@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201FFC385@ltcfiswmsgmb21>
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On 01/08/2013, at 1:45, "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com> wrote:
>> Has anyone had any success with this?
>> 
> 
> Absolutely.
> 
> You can download and dissect the following to show you how it's done...
> 
> http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download.shtml#FreeBSD_Druid
> 
> It uses syslinux, as you can see here:
> 
> http://druidbsd.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/druidbsd/druidbsd/druid/src/boot/freebsd/isolinux.cfg?revision=1.1&view=markup
> 
> As you can see, I use the memdisk.c32 module.
> 
> Notice that I append "iso raw" as options to memdisk.c32.

Yes, I have used memdisk in the past but I want to avoid it if possible. It makes building the image quite a bit more complicated (and tedious to edit).

Have you tried mboot?

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