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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


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