Re: FAT or ExFAT possible for /boot?

From: <paige_at_paige.bio>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:57:13 UTC
Thanks,

Just wanted to add FAT should be fine. The only advantage that comes to mind with ExFAT would be a larger file system however /boot is typically small enough. I need to track down the process for building the raspi image and I’ll give it a shot.

-Paige

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> On Dec 10, 2024, at 8:05 PM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 8:49 PM <paige@paige.bio> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I was just wondering I could do this with FreeBSD. It’d be nice for raspi at least because it would give me an easy way to edit loader.conf
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> FAT should be possible to be /boot. We support reading FAT filesystems. ExFAT has no support though. You may need to compile a custom loader, maybe, if we omit FAT support (which I think is there, but can't check at the moment) 
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> Warner 
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