Date: 26 May 2005 09:11:02 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Jamie Ostrowski <jamie@gnulife.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from a flash card Message-ID: <44zmuixhcp.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20050524172655.C16115@floyd.gnulife.org> References: <20050524172655.C16115@floyd.gnulife.org>
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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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