Booting from a flash card

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Thu May 26 06:11:16 PDT 2005


Jamie Ostrowski <jamie at gnulife.org> writes:

>    I've got a Ricoh (Ricoh RL5C475 PCI-CardBus Bridge) with a 1Gb PCMCIA
> Compact Flash card. I'd like to install FreeBSD on the flash card and to
> be able to boot with the flash. The problem I am running into is that my
> BIOS doesn't recognize the flash card as a boot device.
> 
>    Is there any way to run with a FreeBSD system (4.11) off of a flash
> card rather than a hard drive? Any way to boot up with the flash card?

The BIOS has to initiate the booting.  If the system can't boot off of
flash, you need to start the boot off some other device, and then you
will be able to run some kind of boot management from the other device.


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