Booting from FAT(32)

[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 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 was thinking the loader had FAT support though so I could just get 
Syslinux to load the loader then it would do the rest. Although heck 
how hard can read only FAT support be to write? :)

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