Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:06:45 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Loader FAT32 support Message-ID: <A4AA4892-2C80-473B-A341-A32FA627A995@gsoft.com.au>
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Does anyone use it?
I am trying to boot from a FAT32 formatted USB stick and to minimise the =
amount of stuff I have to put in an MFS I'd like to be able to load the =
kernel directly from the USB stick.
I'm testing in parallels and I have started the loader from a normally =
formatted disk and I have another formatted as FAT32 (with newfs_msdos) =
and the loader sees it but doesn't show any files present, eg
OK lsdev
cd devices:
disk devices:
disk0: BIOS drive A:
disk1: BIOS drive C:
disk1s1a: FFS
disk1s1b: swap
disk1s1d: FFS
disk1s1e: FFS
disk1s1f: FFS
disk2: BIOS drive D:
disk2s1: FAT-32
pxe devices:
OK set currdev=3Ddisk2s1:
OK ls
/
OK
Whereas if I mount it once booted in FreeBSD I can see the files I put =
on it as you would expect.
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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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