At 12:00 PM -0400 7/10/01, Nathan J. Williams wrote:

:)> NetBSD's Firewire support is 'not there yet'. At least not enough to
:)> use hard discs, I was told.
:)
:)Indeed it isn't. That doesn't meen you can't load a kernel from a FW
:)disk, though; you just wouldn't be able to use the disk once you've
:)booted.
:)
:)There are lots of cases like this where the firmware understands one
:)set of devices and the kernel understands a different set; this is not
:)a novel situation.

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.

  -- MW