From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 6 15:39:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0B5B37B420 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:39:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g16Ndlv34672; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:39:47 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:39:47 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Predius Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Diskless USB Issue Message-ID: <20020206233947.GN1066@dan.emsphone.com> References: <004f01c1af64$cf5eee20$fa01a8c0@ABERRATION> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004f01c1af64$cf5eee20$fa01a8c0@ABERRATION> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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