On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Andrew Snow wrote:
> Thats interesting - I regularly use USB sticks to boot freebsd as its
> easier for installation on cluster machines/routers that lack CDROM
> drives.  I've used it on, I think, half a dozen different
> motherboards/architectures and its worked well on all of them, the
> Supermicro box was the only broken one.
>
> Because virtual media emulates a USB device I'm pretty sure thats why
> it wasnt working - the USB problem, not a problem with the IPMI card.

Lucky you, every system I've tried it on bar my Dell i8600 laptop failed 
to boot :)

With the btx.S r1.46 commit I was much more successful though.

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