Booting from FAT(32)

[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 <doconnor at 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..
>
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