Booting FreeBSD with Syslinux

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 01/08/2013, at 1:45, "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske at fisglobal.com> wrote:
>> Has anyone had any success with this?
>> 
> 
> Absolutely.
> 
> You can download and dissect the following to show you how it's done...
> 
> http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download.shtml#FreeBSD_Druid
> 
> It uses syslinux, as you can see here:
> 
> http://druidbsd.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/druidbsd/druidbsd/druid/src/boot/freebsd/isolinux.cfg?revision=1.1&view=markup
> 
> As you can see, I use the memdisk.c32 module.
> 
> Notice that I append "iso raw" as options to memdisk.c32.

Yes, I have used memdisk in the past but I want to avoid it if possible. It makes building the image quite a bit more complicated (and tedious to edit).

Have you tried mboot?

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