Booting FreeBSD with Syslinux

[dteske at freebsd.org]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Daniel O'Connor
> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 4:32 PM
> To: Devin Teske
> Cc: freebsd-stable stable
> Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD with Syslinux
> 
> 
> 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?
> 

No I have not.

Do you know anyone that has got it to work?
-- 
Devin

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