From: Marco Peereboom (marcopeereboom.us)
Date: Sun Jun 29 2003 - 13:17:50 CDT

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If your BIOS doesn't support booting of USB then the next step is pretty moot
isn't it?
Regardless of the device the BIOS should virtualize it and it should not
matter what it is booting of.

I disagree FWIW :-)

On Sunday 29 June 2003 12:04 pm, Marc Matteo wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 07:01, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> > That is a BIOS question...
>
> Not really. That other Open Source kernel project will boot (assuming
> the BIOS supports booting off USB) but because of the way it initializes
> it's various subsystems it won't actually complete booting. I think the
> original poster was wondering if OpenBSD suffered similar shortcomings.
>
> Marc

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