Stefan Schumacher wrote:

>>That's been my experience.  I've never tried booting off one, 
> 
> 
> Me to, but it should work great.

For the record, the one I built was able to boot from cf.

Aside from that ancient propensity of bsd file systems to demand some 
fictional disk geometry, (disks often don't have regular geometry 
anymore), which isn't unique to cf, the entire load & boot was transparent.

--rich