Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:44:40 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Cc: Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net> Subject: Re: Bootable Firewire Drives Message-ID: <200910291144.49847.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1256762062.2790.17.camel@Lappy> References: <1256762062.2790.17.camel@Lappy>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Sean Bruno wrote: > 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. No PC BIOS I have ever seen mentions it.. I believe Macs can do it (and have been able to do so for a while) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBK6OyJ5ZPcIHs/zowRAjVNAJ0fFtD74bupnOdLB92IRGuxDSPkHwCghBg2 WA/eE5b3DN3L+URKtKdfV88= =mpBL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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