On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:47:37AM -0800, Dave wrote:
> 
> I think I'm clear on how to make a bootable USB flash drive using ffs.
> Does anyone here know how to do this using the msdos filesystem?
> newfs_msdos -B foo -F 32 /dev/rsd0e doesn't work.  "foo" == kernel.sys or
> sys.com, both from FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org).
> 
> # newfs_msdos -B kernel.sys -F 32 /dev/rsd0e
> newfs_msdos: kernel.sys: inappropriate file type or format

You don't do it that way....
You need to create a filesystem where the first FAT is in sector 32,
I can't remember whether you need to request 'hidden' or 'reserved'
sectors to do this.

Then do the same as for ffs, except specify bootxx_msdos to installboot.

You (probably) don't want an msdosfs root filesystem though, so may need
to build a kernel that uses a specific root filesystem.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk