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From: Daniel P. <da...@ri...> - 2003-10-21 04:06:04
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On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, David Favro wrote: > I'm sorry once again to bother you with a newbie question, but I'm > wondering if anyone knows whether I can boot from a firewire disk. Not without BIOS support, and I have never seen an x86 BIOS that does feature that support. > I have an IBM-PC compatible that is already running Windows, I don't > want to repartition that drive, and I don't have room for another > internal, so I'm thinking of hooking a LaCie firewire external to it > and installing Linux on that, but I can't seem to find any > documentation indicating that it is possible to boot from it... You can't boot directly from the 1394 device, but you *can* probably work around the problem with a bit of creativity. You probably need a 2.6.0-test* kernel for this, but you /may/ get 2.4 plus initrd working. If you build a boot disk with enough support for 1394 that it can find the device before mounting the root filesystem, you should be able to boot off a floppy (or emulated floppy on CD-ROM) and use the external disk as your root... Daniel -- `geek' --- a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake. -- Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, edition 1977 |