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Date:      Sat, 16 Jan 1999 00:36:42 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Anonymous <anonym@ic.kubsu.ru>, nointplus@usa.net, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: picoBSD can ROM boot? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901160032330.22894-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <199901151643.IAA00882@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote:

> > 1. picoBSD can ROM boot? No need to run from ROM. Only start.
> 
> Not yet, no.  A disk-emulating flash device will work, however.

Hmmm... However, I suspect that with technical details about the bootup of
such a device one could quite easily hack boot1/boot2 to load the kernel
from it (IF it has a BIOS). Then, if the system were configured like
picobsd is, it could run just fine.

Andrzej Bialecki

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