Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:39:47 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Predius <predius@netzero.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Diskless USB Issue Message-ID: <20020206233947.GN1066@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <004f01c1af64$cf5eee20$fa01a8c0@ABERRATION> References: <004f01c1af64$cf5eee20$fa01a8c0@ABERRATION>
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In the last episode (Feb 06), Predius said: > > Parasite (iPaq): 32MB Compact Flash card, formated as a FAT fs, loads DOS, > > and uses dosboot.com (from netbsd) to load a freebsd kernel on the > > filesystem. > > Looks like I stumped freebsd-questions, anyone else care to take a whack at > this? I think you're lucky it even boots, since I don't think booting a kernel after DOS has has its hand on the system has been supported since 2.2.something. If that CF card really must be a FAT FS, I believe both the Grub bootloader and /boot/loader can run on FAT, so you should be able to boot straight into FreeBSD without using DOS (have grub load /boot/loader which in turn loads the kernel). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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