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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.
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Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>Jamie Ostrowski <jamie@gnulife.org> writes:
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>>   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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