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From: "M. Jones" <mjones@imperium.net>
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Subject: Re: Looking for bootable solid state HD
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	How about OpenBSD, NetBSD, BSDI ...?  I'm much less familiar with
their PCMCIA implementation than FreeBSD's (and haven't got BSDI 3.0 to look at
yet).

On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Nate Williams wrote:

> > 	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
> 

Matt Jones					Imperium Internet, Inc.
System Administrator				http://www.imperium.net
mjones@imperium.net