Re: FAT or ExFAT possible for /boot?
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 05:03:26 UTC
I have had systems booting this way. I had a laptop for which the boot.efi didn't work (at the time) and I wanted loader.efi. But loader.efi wants the loader.conf (and other files) in /boot. So I put /boot into the EFI partition and loaded loader.efi. That all worked. ... now the driving issue for me (boot.efi not working) solved itself... so I no longer do this, but it did work circa 10.x and 11.x. On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 11:58 PM <paige@paige.bio> wrote: > 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 > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 10, 2024, at 8:05 PM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > > > > 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 >> > > 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) > > Warner > > Sent from my iPhone >> >