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From: "Peter Korsten" <peterk@maltanet.net>
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Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD-CURRENT off of a Firewire disk?
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 20:23:00 +0200
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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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