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Date:      Wed, 23 May 2001 08:31:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: technical comparison
Message-ID:  <20010523082618.L87127-100000@nausicaa.mitre.org>
In-Reply-To: <3B0B07C2.F8EA4839@newsguy.com>

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On Tue, 22 May 2001, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:

> Jason Andresen wrote:
> >
> > If only FreeBSD could boot from those funky M-Systems flash disks.
>
> It can.

How?  Nothing I found in the documentation indicated this, or gave any
sort hint as to how I might go about doing it.  The Linux driver has a
hacked version of Lilo that has to be installed prior to even thinking of
doing anything with the flash, but I found no equivelent for FreeBSDs
boot1.

FreeBSD can mount the disks just fine (I used a custom PicoBSD boot floppy
to fix up the Linux install on the flash disk enough so that it would boot
(the stupid script M-Systems provided installed a completely hosed
system!)).

This sort of information might be handy to have on freebsd.org.


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