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Date:      Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:26:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        "Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr." <bsder@allcaps.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting a 4.9 Beta CD on a USB CD/RW?
Message-ID:  <20030925092601.A8717@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309240235300.23117-100000@mail.allcaps.org>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309240235300.23117-100000@mail.allcaps.org>

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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote:

> Can anyone give me some pointers about how to boot a 4.9 Beta CD on a USB
> CD/RW?  Or, at the very least, tell me that it doesn't work and that I
> should quit trying.

This involves having BIOS support to boot USB, and Int13 emulation of USB
I/O so loader can do its work. Looks like your system doesn't provide
this.

> I get the 2.88 MB floppy message and then the boot fails with the
> messages "Not ufs", "No /boot/loader" and "No /kernel".

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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