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H. Peter Anvin, le Mon 13 Sep 2010 09:06:37 -0700, a écrit :
> On 09/13/2010 08:22 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Again, I'm not sure we really should try hard to make it automatically
> > detected (and thus always enabled).  Having to pass a kernel parameter
> > to enable the functionality is completely fine, since installing Linux
> > on this device requires quite some tinkering already.
> > 
> 
> Could you describe this kind of tinkering?

Basically, opening the device to select boot on the external
CompactFlash reader.

Samuel