>From: Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >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 _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
