Re: Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
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Re: Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
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Re: Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
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 us

Re: Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
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 have a proper look I see otherwise :( > I've been m

Re: Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-13 Thread Adrian Chadd
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 : > Does

Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
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 i