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> 	Has anyone gotten a PCMCIA flash card to boot, either in software or 
> hardware?

The PCMCIA code as written won't allow this to happen, since the cards
aren't recognized until *AFTER* the kernel is running multi-user.  There
has been talk about moving some of the functionality into the kernel,
but for now it's not there.


Nate