Re: Booting from a flash card

From: Karan Gupta (kgupta_at_edgefocus.com)
Date: 05/26/05

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To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>

    I have been using
    http://www.gctglobal.com/Products/Set_Top_Box/STB6086N2/stb6086n2.html.
    They have CF slot that the BIOS recognizes as a boot device.
    .

    Lowell Gilbert wrote:

    >Jamie Ostrowski <jamie@gnulife.org> writes:
    >
    >
    >
    >> I've got a Ricoh (Ricoh RL5C475 PCI-CardBus Bridge) with a 1Gb PCMCIA
    >>Compact Flash card. I'd like to install FreeBSD on the flash card and to
    >>be able to boot with the flash. The problem I am running into is that my
    >>BIOS doesn't recognize the flash card as a boot device.
    >>
    >> Is there any way to run with a FreeBSD system (4.11) off of a flash
    >>card rather than a hard drive? Any way to boot up with the flash card?
    >>
    >>
    >
    >The BIOS has to initiate the booting. If the system can't boot off of
    >flash, you need to start the boot off some other device, and then you
    >will be able to run some kind of boot management from the other device.
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