From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 31 23:32:32 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3204C416; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:32:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8EA4B2C95; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:32:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.dons.net.au (ppp118-210-72-17.lns20.adl2.internode.on.net [118.210.72.17]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r6VNWBL5024376 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 1 Aug 2013 09:02:19 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD with Syslinux Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.5 \(1508\)) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_88885AB2-2146-4164-9B60-3DE954F2E84D"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201FFC385@ltcfiswmsgmb21> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 09:02:08 +0930 Message-Id: <72D1BC68-3E5A-4DCA-8585-3CA7D3A2D51D@gsoft.com.au> References: <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201FFC385@ltcfiswmsgmb21> To: Devin Teske X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1508) X-Spam-Score: 0.163 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:32:32 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_88885AB2-2146-4164-9B60-3DE954F2E84D Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 01/08/2013, at 1:45, "Teske, Devin" = wrote: >> Has anyone had any success with this? >>=20 >=20 > Absolutely. >=20 > You can download and dissect the following to show you how it's = done... >=20 > http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download.shtml#FreeBSD_Druid >=20 > It uses syslinux, as you can see here: >=20 > = http://druidbsd.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/druidbsd/druidbsd/druid/src/boo= t/freebsd/isolinux.cfg?revision=3D1.1&view=3Dmarkup >=20 > As you can see, I use the memdisk.c32 module. >=20 > 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? -- 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 --Apple-Mail=_88885AB2-2146-4164-9B60-3DE954F2E84D Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iD8DBQFR+Z565ZPcIHs/zowRAudoAJ4gkZM3ZzlEJUExRbSwR7tnyydJfwCeMfqc IDKTlfAaTLjTgLmabd6v9OM= =fXgk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_88885AB2-2146-4164-9B60-3DE954F2E84D--