Llinopinolino
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Hi all,
I need an advice on a piece of hardware that will enable my box to boot from an SD card. The answer is not so simple because I have a very old machine.
I have installed my freeNAS 8.0 in an old Dell Dimension 4300 with Intel Pentium IV CPU 2.00GHz, 500 MB of RAM. The motherboard does not have any SATA connections slot so I managed to install on a Samsung IDE disk, it works fine. I also attached a 1 TB disk to a RAID SATA PCI card. Also the motherboard BIOS does not support an USB boot (!).
I want to stress that this is just an experiment to make it work I am not expecting to be performing. If it works I will find a better machine.
So my question is: I want to install freeNAS in a SD card and make it bootable from there. I have purchased a DeLock converter IDE 40pin Card Reader intern SD Card but it does not boot because the BIOS does not recognize it.
Anybody has any experience or suggestion on which converter/adapter I can use to boot from the SD card?
Thanks
Lino
I need an advice on a piece of hardware that will enable my box to boot from an SD card. The answer is not so simple because I have a very old machine.
I have installed my freeNAS 8.0 in an old Dell Dimension 4300 with Intel Pentium IV CPU 2.00GHz, 500 MB of RAM. The motherboard does not have any SATA connections slot so I managed to install on a Samsung IDE disk, it works fine. I also attached a 1 TB disk to a RAID SATA PCI card. Also the motherboard BIOS does not support an USB boot (!).
I want to stress that this is just an experiment to make it work I am not expecting to be performing. If it works I will find a better machine.
So my question is: I want to install freeNAS in a SD card and make it bootable from there. I have purchased a DeLock converter IDE 40pin Card Reader intern SD Card but it does not boot because the BIOS does not recognize it.
Anybody has any experience or suggestion on which converter/adapter I can use to boot from the SD card?
Thanks
Lino