Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 09:16:57 -0400 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com> To: Peter Korsten <peterk@maltanet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD-CURRENT off of a Firewire disk? Message-ID: <20020630091657.A12680@attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <016601c22026$dd17b640$8c00000a@default>; from peterk@maltanet.net on Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 11:13:47AM %2B0200 References: <20020629150018.A6689@attbi.com> <016601c22026$dd17b640$8c00000a@default>
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On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 11:13:47AM +0200, Peter Korsten wrote: > If you can make a boot block for FreeBSD that has firewire support, you > might pull it off. I think it's the only scenario possible with the > restrictions (no resizing of the XP partition, etc.) that you describe. > > Since a boot block is typically very small (512 bytes or so), this could be > a real challenge. Unless I misunderstand what you are saying, I'm guessing that putting Firewire support within a 512 byte boot block will be impossible. Could I put some sort of minimal distribution on either a floppy disk or CD-ROM, just to do the initial bootstrap and initialize the Firewire driver, and then choose the final bootstrap using a kernel image on the firewire disk? Thanks. -- Craig Rodrigues http://www.gis.net/~craigr rodrigc@attbi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-firewire" in the body of the message
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