Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:09:14 -0600 (CST) From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, Scott Long <scottl@pooker.samsco.org> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile Message-ID: <3362285.1138799355022.JavaMail.root@vms170.mailsrvcs.net>
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>From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> >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
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