From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 27 09:36:48 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E0381065675 for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:36:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (unknown [IPv6:2001:44b8:7c07:5581:266:e1ff:fe0c:8f16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF6F38FC13 for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:36:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.2.78] (ppp208-205.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.208.205] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p2R9ai88097645 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:06:45 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:06:45 +1030 To: freebsd-current Current Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) X-Spam-Score: -0.272 () BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Subject: Loader FAT32 support X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:36:48 -0000 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. -- 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