FAT or ExFAT possible for /boot?

[p***@paige.bio]

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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[Warner Losh]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 8:49 PM <***@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

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[p***@paige.bio]

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 <***@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
> 
>
>
>> On Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 8:49 PM <***@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

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

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.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 <***@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
> 
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 8:49 PM <***@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
>>
>