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In message <863btkq7jp.fsf@xps.des.no>, =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= 
writes:
>Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> writes:
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 03:42:28PM +0000, David E. O'Brien wrote..
>> >   Log:
>> >   MFC: rev 1.14: remove type 0x4 (FAT12 <32MB) to make room for type 0x7 (NTFS).
>> As a matter of curiosity, how does this impact people with minimal FreeBSD
>> systems running out of (granted...) very small flashroms for example?
>
>Last I checked, you can't boot FreeBSD off a FAT partition.

There shouldn't be any problems with that apart from what obstacles
FAT's limitations impose.  Root mounts are not magic any longer so
in theory any filesystem should be able to be root filesytem.

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