On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Chris Green wrote: > Simple answer.... NO > > I tried the install and got the same lockup at slice load... I erased > the disk and tried again. This time it loaded the kernel but failed at > the point of mounting the root volume. For grins I called support and > was told it doesn't support USB booting. I've been told by others they > got it to work in older versions. My guess is some BIOS may emulate ATA > a little better and GB-Ware can't tell the difference. In my test > system (our in-house firewall) it would not work. Hopefully they can > help us out with this as I would prefer to start selling MiniATX systems > with CF slots on the front for simplicity. Heck... Maybe even SD. :)
GnatBox supports CF with an IDE (Not USB) controller. Specifically, hw furnished by GB. You might investigate that support as the basis of the system you want to configure. My current client is building an appliance based product. We tried hard to use USB-flash drive in lieu of a CD for development installs (and perhaps eventually for manufacturing. Even though we can boot from USB CDs, we weren't able to get a USB flash drive to boot. Hard to spend much debugging time debugging boot problems with inadequate tools when all we were saving was the time to periodically burn an install CD. I digress here just to point out that USB flash boot is problematic for more than GB. Dave Morris ------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://archives.gnatbox.com/gb-users/
