Subject: Re: Booting firewire external hard drives
To: Michael Wolfson <mw@blobulent.com>
From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/10/2001 12:24:18
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:11:15AM -0700, Michael Wolfson wrote:
> I hate to be a pest, but has anyone actually *tried* booting from a
> FireWire device?  All we've got is people saying it can('t) be done, and
> Apple saying the machines are capable of it.

I guess this is important because one could keep a NetBSD disk
internal to the machine and a Firewire HFS(+) disk with ofwboot.* on
it?

Would it kill us to be silent about Firewire support at least until
we can actually see the drive under NetBSD?

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