From owner-freebsd-hackers  Wed May 23  6:39:22 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B610E37B42C
	for <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed, 23 May 2001 06:39:18 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org)
Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58])
	by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA03235
	for <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed, 23 May 2001 09:39:16 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17])
	by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA17428
	for <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed, 23 May 2001 09:39:15 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from nausicaa.mitre.org ([128.29.105.85]) by
          mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP
          id GDSJ9D00.9Z9; Wed, 23 May 2001 09:39:13 -0400 
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 08:31:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>
To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: technical comparison
In-Reply-To: <3B0B07C2.F8EA4839@newsguy.com>
Message-ID: <20010523082618.L87127-100000@nausicaa.mitre.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-hackers.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-hackers>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-hackers>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

On Tue, 22 May 2001, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:

> Jason Andresen wrote:
> >
> > If only FreeBSD could boot from those funky M-Systems flash disks.
>
> It can.

How?  Nothing I found in the documentation indicated this, or gave any
sort hint as to how I might go about doing it.  The Linux driver has a
hacked version of Lilo that has to be installed prior to even thinking of
doing anything with the flash, but I found no equivelent for FreeBSDs
boot1.

FreeBSD can mount the disks just fine (I used a custom PicoBSD boot floppy
to fix up the Linux install on the flash disk enough so that it would boot
(the stupid script M-Systems provided installed a completely hosed
system!)).

This sort of information might be handy to have on freebsd.org.


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message