cvs commit: src/sys/dev/usb umass.c

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Mar 26 13:58:51 PST 2003


In message <20030325.233035.105508479.imp at bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:
>In message: <20504.1048612876 at critter.freebsd.dk>
>            "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
>: Booting from USB devices ?
>
>Many laptops support booting from USB disks of various flavors.
>Espeically cdroms on the ultralight laptops.

Right, but how does USB flaws get involved with booting from a CDROM ?

As far as I know we don't even mount the cdrom as the root filesystem,
but rather run on a preloaded MD disk ?

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