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Re: [cobalt-developers] booting the qube 3
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] booting the qube 3
- From: Malcolm McLeary <mmcleary@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri Feb 16 23:15:05 2001
- List-id: Discussion Forum for developers on Cobalt Networks products <cobalt-developers.list.cobalt.com>
Hi Tim,
on 6/1/01 9:24 AM, Tim Hockin at thockin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Would it be posible to boot an other OS for example freebsd? Can the
>> bootloader handle this?
>
> the bootloader (by default) loads /boot/vmlinux.gz on an ext2 filesystem. If
> you can convice freeBSD (you can) to make a small ext2 filesystem and put a
> gzipped, staticly compiled ELF executable called <ext2fs>/boot/vmlinux.gz, the
> firmware will try to boot it.
On a similar theme ... is it possible to boot a Qube3 from a usb powered zip
drive?
Cheers, Malcolm