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[Andrew Snow]

Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> Okay, so then your original comment ("The same thing happened when
> trying to use a USB CDROM drive, so I suspect USB boot support is at
> fault somehow") might actually not be caused by FreeBSD at all?  The
> reason I say that:

OK, good point.  I didn't try any other OS, I just tried FreeBSD 6 and 7 
off a USB CDROM drive, virtual media CDROM, and virtual media floppy, 
both of which use USB emulation.  I assumed that if I tried, say, a 
Windows CD, it would just work because that's usually Supermicro's 
target market.


> What Supermicro box is having USB booting problems?

Its a rather new X7DWT motherboard (Intel 5400 chipset, Xeon CPU)

Good luck with getting your USB drives back :-)

- Andrew