From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Feb 9 11:51:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D0CB37B41E; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 11:51:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA69074; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 13:51:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 13:51:32 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: Oliver Fromme Cc: John Baldwin , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= , FreeBSD Hackers Mailing List , FreeBSD Hardware Mailing List , Oliver Fromme , "Eugene M. Kim" , Terry Lambert , Josef Karthauser Subject: Re: USB "Memorybird" quirks In-Reply-To: <200202091216.g19CGk874726@lurza.secnetix.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Oliver Fromme wrote: > I think that would be a very good idea. The boot software issue > is negligible, because there aren't any USB devices you can boot > from. You mean can't boot from USB devices in just FreeBSD, or anywhere? I've not actually tried it yet, but many motherboard vendors have added the ability to boot from USB ZIP drives and probably other USB mass storage devices to their BIOSes, so it at least should be possible. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, and ARM architectures under development - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message