Subject: Re: Devices to boot from?
To: Stephen Borrill <netbsd@precedence.co.uk>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/26/2001 20:26:16
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:35:18PM +0100, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> What devices and/or filesystem types can the bootloader boot
> from? i.e. if I boot from floppy what devices can I enter besides wd* and
> hd*. For example, is it possible to boot from a MicroDrive or CompactFlash
> card?

The floppy uses boot routines to read from disk. So you can boot from any
device known from your BIOS.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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