Subject: Re: Booting firewire external hard drives
To: None <mw@blobulent.com>
From: samuel rose <samuel.rose@voyager.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/10/2001 08:45:55
Michael Wolfson wrote:
>
> At 10:03 PM -0500 7/9/01, samuel rose wrote:
>
> :)I am guessing that it's not possible to boot netBSD on a firewire hard
> :)drive (IEEE 1394)? The machine would be a B&W G3.
>
> I'm not sure anyone has tried. Let me know whether it works or not, so I
> can mention it in the INSTALL notes. If it does work, let me know what
> Open Firmware command you used.
>
> Thanks,
> -- MW
I was told by apple that open firmware would not support booting it at
all yet, under any OS. So far it appears they are right, but I will
continue to try get the machine to do it.