Re: 1394 disk as boot device
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From: Keith H. <hn...@ho...> - 2003-11-13 14:10:08
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Stefan Richter wrote: > On 20 Oct, David Favro was: > >>[...] wondering if >>anyone knows whether I can boot from a firewire disk. 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, [...] > > > The firmware of Apple Macintosh computers can boot from Firewire > disks. The BIOSes of IBM compatibles cannot. Or at least I heard > of no such BIOS yet. > I haven't tried this yet, but it sounds like a promising alternative... http://www.linuxbios.org/ -- Lost in Tokyo, Keith |