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Date:      Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:02:40 +0100
From:      Julian Stecklina <js@alien8.de>
To:        freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bootable Firewire Drives
Message-ID:  <87tyxbhl3z.fsf@tabernacle.localhost>
References:  <1256762062.2790.17.camel@Lappy>

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Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net> writes:

> Does anyone have a good idea of what(if any) motherboard bios' support
> firewire as a bootable target?
>
> None of my machines seem to be able to boot off an external firewire
> drive which is hampering my efforts to prove out the code.

It could be implemented as Option ROM on a Firewire controller,
regardless of the BIOS. I haven't seen one, though.

Regards,
-- 
Julian Stecklina

The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day
they start making vacuum cleaners - Ernst Jan Plugge




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