On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 13:10, Eric Spakman wrote:
> > Is the Bering-uClibc team producing images specifically targeted at
> > usb-hdd flash drives?
>
> No specific images, but we provide different kind of initrd_xxx packages
> which can be used for floppy, hdd, usb (flash) or cd use. So just choosing
> the right initrd package and changing leaf.cfg/syslinux.cfg is enough to
> use a different boot medium.
Eric,
Understood.
> I don't see any specific need to create an image targeted at usb-hdd flash
> drives. Older hardware doesn't support usb booting,
We do have minimum requirements, and don't support all old hardware. I'm
just suggesting we evaluate our minimum requirements again.
> embedded devices like
> wrap and soekris don't support it either.
True, but there does seem to be interest.
http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2005-February/022701.html
http://www.pcengines.ch/wrusb.htm
> For me usb-flash booting is just
> one of the options one has to boot LEAF if the hardware supports it, which
> can easely be done with selecting the correct initrd package.
Understood.
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