Re: 1394 disk as boot device

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/

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