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Date:      Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:04:44 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        paige@paige.bio
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FAT or ExFAT possible for /boot?
Message-ID:  <CANCZdfrVwQoEzehNQEzZHbeBrE2En9y8oaJNjUvT0AZGvmdCWQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BDAE6092-B1C6-4A06-AEF4-D239BD29E2F7@paige.bio>
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On Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 8:49=E2=80=AFPM <paige@paige.bio> wrote:

> Hi,
> I was just wondering I could do this with FreeBSD. It=E2=80=99d be nice f=
or raspi
> at least because it would give me an easy way to edit loader.conf
>

FAT should be possible to be /boot. We support reading FAT filesystems.
ExFAT has no support though. You may need to compile a custom loader,
maybe, if we omit FAT support (which I think is there, but can't check at
the moment)

Warner

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<div dir=3D"auto"><div><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" =
class=3D"gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 8:49=E2=80=AFPM  &lt;paige@paige=
.bio&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:=
0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
I was just wondering I could do this with FreeBSD. It=E2=80=99d be nice for=
 raspi at least because it would give me an easy way to edit loader.conf<br=
></blockquote></div></div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">FAT=
 should be possible to be /boot. We support reading FAT filesystems. ExFAT =
has no support though. You may need to compile a custom loader, maybe, if w=
e omit FAT support (which I think is there, but can&#39;t check at the mome=
nt)=C2=A0</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">Warner=C2=A0</=
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"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:=
1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Sent from my iPhone<br>
</blockquote></div></div></div>

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