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Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 22:15:25 +0200
From: Fabian Anklam <greatnorthern@gmail.com>
To: Jamie Ostrowski <jamie@gnulife.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: Booting from a flash card
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On 5/25/05, Jamie Ostrowski <jamie@gnulife.org> wrote:
>=20
>=20
>    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.
>=20
>    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?
>=20
>=20
>    Thanks,
>=20
>     - 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=3Dde&q=3DIDE+Compact+Flash+Adapter