[talk] FreeBSD loader

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Oct 19 11:40:34 EDT 2016


On Tuesday, October 11, 2016 08:24:50 PM Mark Saad wrote:
> All
>   I wanted to know if anyone knows of FreeBSD's loader can read from a fat/msdosfs disk or partition ? I was so playing around with mfsbsd and I wanted to see if I could load the mfsbsd from a fat formatted disk . 

Yes, libstand includes a 'dosfs' filesystem that can read from those.
Use 'lsdev' to see what disk partitions are available to read from.
'lsdev -v' might tell you the filesystem types.

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John Baldwin




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