Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 20:23:00 +0200 From: "Peter Korsten" <peterk@maltanet.net> To: "Craig Rodrigues" <rodrigc@attbi.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD-CURRENT off of a Firewire disk? Message-ID: <001b01c22063$370cebc0$8c00000a@default> References: <20020629150018.A6689@attbi.com> <016601c22026$dd17b640$8c00000a@default> <20020630091657.A12680@attbi.com>
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From: "Craig Rodrigues" <rodrigc@attbi.com> > 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? Yes, I forgot about the option of a boot disc (even though I'm using one right now for BeOS/OpenBeOS). That should work just fine, and a boot floppy should suffice. - Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-firewire" in the body of the message
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