From owner-freebsd-small Fri Jan 15 15:34:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01919 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 15:34:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [195.187.243.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01815 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 15:32:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA26403; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 00:36:43 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 00:36:42 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Mike Smith cc: Anonymous , nointplus@usa.net, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: picoBSD can ROM boot? In-Reply-To: <199901151643.IAA00882@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > 1. picoBSD can ROM boot? No need to run from ROM. Only start. > > Not yet, no. A disk-emulating flash device will work, however. Hmmm... However, I suspect that with technical details about the bootup of such a device one could quite easily hack boot1/boot2 to load the kernel from it (IF it has a BIOS). Then, if the system were configured like picobsd is, it could run just fine. Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message