Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 22:35:43 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> Cc: vincent@netaktiv.com, tech@gitoyen.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Subject: Re: BTX on USB pen drive Message-ID: <200803072235.51881.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20080307095145.GA21904@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <200803061742.34291.vincent@netaktiv.com> <47D10F9D.4040603@quip.cz> <20080307095145.GA21904@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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--nextPart1227457.lgPNTGYWgV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > I think you can use GRUB, because it is used in stage where all > > systems works the same way and amd64 kernel will be booted in later > > stage. > > All of what you've said is correct. I'm not sure who's having > problems with GRUB on USB sticks, because yes, it does work. (There > are some USB stick models, however, which do not support booting.=20 > That's a vendor/manufacturer problem however.) My experience with GRUB is limited to trying to get the port to install=20 on an amd64 machine (failed).. And as Rink says - amd64 kernels rely on things the loader does to work,=20 although I guess it might be possible to add that to GRUB. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1227457.lgPNTGYWgV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBH0S+f5ZPcIHs/zowRArnYAKCY5/DWOW7SW+w7ek+dzBF0T0M9QQCdE/9i d/d09D3kJClXUnmT0SxQTdw= =33Mb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1227457.lgPNTGYWgV--
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