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
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