From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 1 13:09:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01B7C16A420; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:09:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from babkin@verizon.net) Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net (vms040pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6D2B43D46; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:09:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from babkin@verizon.net) Received: from vms170.mailsrvcs.net ([192.168.1.3]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0IU000AB5F7EZRY3@vms040.mailsrvcs.net>; Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:09:15 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:09:14 -0600 (CST) From: Sergey Babkin To: Peter Jeremy , Scott Long Message-id: <3362285.1138799355022.JavaMail.root@vms170.mailsrvcs.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: babkin@users.sf.net List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:09:16 -0000 >From: Peter Jeremy >Some time ago, I was surprised to find that my son's oldish (mid 2003) >system was happy to try and boot off a USB memory stick. The BIOSes have been able to do this feat for a while now. There are two caveats though: 1. It's slow, since BIOSes tend to use USB 1.x speeds, and even that not in a really fast way. So the big images are best to be avoided. Though probably it's still faster than floppies. 2. Accessing the root filesystem - the USB drivers have to be either statically compiled into the kernel or be loaded by the boot loader through BIOS (maybe through an analog of initrd ram disk - I'm not sure what advances have been done to the FreeBSD boot loader nowadays). -SB