Re: FW: Boot from smartmedia card?

The two ways of booting CDLINUX are etherboot (which is obviously not
appropriate...) and syslinux. 

So if you can boot the equivalent of a floppy disk with DOS and then get
syslinux running then yes you could boot cdlinux.

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 04:25:37PM -0800, Jack van den Akker wrote:
> I am forwarding this to you in case you are not on the mailing list and you
> would want to answer.
> 
> Maybe you got it, maybe you didn't, etc.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of John
> > Griessen
> > Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 8:31 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [Cdlinux-developer] Boot from smartmedia card?
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > It seems like the linux 2.4 and up kernels are now able to deal
> > with usb devices, even usb
> > drives, so do you know  anyone who has done that, and wouldn't it
> > be fine to
> > be able to use cdlinux to write to a smartmedia card just like to
> > a disk on chip?  Is
> > there a usb boot mechanism already in linux?
> > --
> > John Griessen    Cibolo Design       Austin Texas
> > EE good at IR systems, power supplies, logic design, A2D D2A,
> > digital amps,
> > mechatronics, SiGe and CMOS layout, MEMS/mech/electronic/photonic
> > modeling, charge pump PV/battery/fuel cell power converters, more...
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