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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: TS-7250 BSD and USB booting
From: "Jesse Off" <>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:45:16 -0000
I have tried it on a TS-7200, but the TS-7250 isn't fully supported by
the NetBSD port.  1) I haven't written a procedure for using RedBoot
to boot a NetBSD kernel and 2) I don't look for the extra SDRAM that
may be available on the TS-7250.

You can get Linux to pseudo-boot to the USB key using a complex
invocation using an "initrd" and "pivot root" (Linux terminology). 
Basically, you boot to an in-RAM filesystem image that contains the
USB modules.  The system boots up, loads the USB modules, and then
does whats called a "pivot root" (not chroot) to the USB filesystem.

I think  has set this up before, I'll see if I
can get him to post it here if he still has the initrd and remembers
the kernel commandline. 

//Jesse Off

--- In  "vocemanago" <> wrote:
>
> Ok, so I think I messed up my development USB key. 
> And to be quite honest I don't think the chroot stuff is going to work
> (it doesn't seem to function correctly for telneting and stuff).
> I seem to remember in one of the notes from Jesse that BSD had direct
> booting from USB.
> Has anyone tried that, using NetBSD and booting off of a USB key?
> 
> 
> That or I just have to figure out why the key isn't working right.
> 
> I really need to get the right tools again too... need a computer for
> cross dev running debian again I think.
> 
> I hate relearning how to roll the wheel.
> T.
>






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