Loader reading FAT

[Daniel O'Connor]

Hi,
I am attempting to get create a FAT FS USB stick to install FreeBSD 
from.

I have it working however I would like to pare back the size of the 
syslinux memdisk it loads. Currently it has the loader, kernel & 
sysinstall MFS which is not very small (this isn't an issue for me but 
I find it less elegant than I'd like).

I think it should be possible to just have the loader in the syslinux 
memdisk and then have that read the rest from the USB stick. 

Unfortunately I can't get the loader to read a FAT partition which 
surprises me because I think it should be able to.. I believe that 
libstand can do it (I can see the code :) however when I list the USB 
stick device I get an empty directory listing.

The partition is marked as type 0x0c (FAT32 LBA) and the loader sees it 
in lsdev. The FS was made with newfs_msdos with no arguments other than 
the device.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

-- 
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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