Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:33:29 +0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from FAT(32) Message-ID: <d763ac660906130833h1043b1eat3b83964bc81bcbea@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200906140015.44560.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200906140015.44560.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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I believe there's some NetBSD FAT32 aware loader. Dianora stumbled across it when I was talking about this very thing earlier. 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. Adrian 2009/6/13 Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>: > Does anyone have a recipe for such a thing? > I currently have a split FAT32/UFS install USB stick but I'd like to get > it to just FAT32 if possible.. > > I think I can do it once I can run the loader - I can then load an MFS > and use UZIP for the FSs and so on.. > > I have been playing with Syslinux but it doesn't like > loading /boot/loader as a linux kernel and I'm not sure which format to > try. > > I think I can get it to work using the memdisk syslinux thing but that > seems like a kludge.. > > -- > 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." > =A0-- Andrew Tanenbaum > GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C >
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