On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Alan Barrett wrote:
On Fri, 04 Jan 2008, Stephen Borrill wrote:
I took a pen drive, formatted it under Windows to ensure it had a clean FAT (not FAT32) filesystem, then copied /boot and a kernel to the filesystem. [...] I set the first partition as active. bootxx_fat16 is doing its magic loading /boot. However, once in the boot loader, I can't find a working path to the kernel.
I had a similar problem, which went away when I added a disklabel (in the space between the MBR and the start of the FAT partition).
disklabel -I -e sd0 to save a hard copy of the fabricated disklabel worked fine. Thanks Alan!
This isn't alluded to anywhere in the documentation though. I'm not convinced it should be necessary either...
-- Stephen