Booting a 4.9 Beta CD on a USB CD/RW?

[Doug White]

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".

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