Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:33:54 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from FAT(32) Message-ID: <200906141034.01890.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <d763ac660906130833h1043b1eat3b83964bc81bcbea@mail.gmail.com> References: <200906140015.44560.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <d763ac660906130833h1043b1eat3b83964bc81bcbea@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart23491524.SBdZhJSTAu Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > I believe there's some NetBSD FAT32 aware loader. Dianora stumbled > across it when I was talking about this very thing earlier. I thought the FreeBSD loader spoke FAT32 already, although now I go and=20 have a proper look I see otherwise :( > I've been meaning to trial it out actually. It sure would be > interesting to boot a kernel/mfs off of a DOS bootable FAT USB. I think you can do it if you makefs /boot and feed it to syslinux using=20 memdisk (I plan on trying this today). I was thinking the loader had FAT support though so I could just get=20 Syslinux to load the loader then it would do the rest. Although heck=20 how hard can read only FAT support be to write? :) =2D-=20 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 --nextPart23491524.SBdZhJSTAu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBKNEyB5ZPcIHs/zowRAtxwAJ9dzxf1GEJMAaG9pQXnEdDvU+q1FwCgmtgl U//jR4M/KGphQMI4x2S4KKY= =J+uN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart23491524.SBdZhJSTAu--
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