Re: Booting from a flash card

From: Fabian Anklam (greatnorthern_at_gmail.com)
Date: 05/26/05

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    Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 22:15:25 +0200
    To: Jamie Ostrowski <jamie@gnulife.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
    
    

    On 5/25/05, Jamie Ostrowski <jamie@gnulife.org> wrote:
    >
    >
    > 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?
    >
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > - Jamie

    I'm using a normal CF card with a simple IDE Adapter - recognized like
    a normal HDD by the BIOS.
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&q=IDE+Compact+Flash+Adapter
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