On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > 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 memdisk (I plan on trying this today).
I used Luigi's iso2flash.sh script (the guts thereof) and it worked fine, ie..
mkdir /tmp/boot
cp -r /boot /tmp/boot
[ fixup /tmp/boot/boot how you like ]
makefs -t ffs -o bsize=4096 -o fsize=512 -f 50 /tmp/boot.img /tmp/boot
bsdlabel -Bw -f /tmp/boot.img auto
bsdlabel -f /tmp/boot.img | sed -e '/ c:/{p;s/c:/a:/;}' | bsdlabel -R -f
/tmp/boot.img /dev/stdin
gzip /tmp/boot.img
(Using -B obviated the need for the dd magic in the original script)
Copy /tmp/boot.img.gz to the USB stick and then you can use a syslinux conf
like..
label FreeBSD
kernel memdisk
append initrd=boot.img.gz
I got the kernel to mount root off the FAT32 partition although you need to
make sure /dev exists and all the binaries & libs it wants are present.
(eg mkdir /mnt/dev ; cp -r /bin /sbin /lib /libexec /mnt)
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