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Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD with Syslinux
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>wrote:

>
> On 01/08/2013, at 12:15, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
> >> Supposedly someone got it to work because there is an entry in the
> syslinux wiki
> >> http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Mboot.c32#FreeBSD_example
> >
> > I'm following the threads on both lists, and that example looks more
> like a generic template than an actual, working command. "kernel_option",
> for example.
>
> Yeah, I also wonder if it's for booting a XENified FreeBSD or something
> similar (no idea really).
>
> Maybe I'll just have to stuff the loader in an MFS and boot that :(
>

galacticdominator% ./mbchk /boot/kernel/kernel
/boot/kernel/kernel: No Multiboot header.

Maybe i386 would work, but apparently not amd64.

-- 
Adam Vande More