I have Toshiba R200 laptop that with its BIOS capable of booting from its SD card slot.
Is there a way I can install minimal FreeBSD. The laptop hard drive died. It can boot from USB sticks but I don't want to use them as they are less convenient (sticks out from
rear of the laptop). I realize that the SD cards are slow. I have a class 10 SDHC card and
I am happy to put up with the slowness.
I explored GRUB .. but it does not seem to look for mmcblk0 devices at all. My web search
revealed that many address the problem by using sd card in a card reader with USB interface. But that is not what I am after. I want to boot the card natively from the slot in the laptop.
Is there a way I can install minimal FreeBSD. The laptop hard drive died. It can boot from USB sticks but I don't want to use them as they are less convenient (sticks out from
rear of the laptop). I realize that the SD cards are slow. I have a class 10 SDHC card and
I am happy to put up with the slowness.
I explored GRUB .. but it does not seem to look for mmcblk0 devices at all. My web search
revealed that many address the problem by using sd card in a card reader with USB interface. But that is not what I am after. I want to boot the card natively from the slot in the laptop.