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Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD/powerpc from external FireWire drive?
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Hi Paul,

> Any clues as to why booting from the OpenFirmware prompt is not working?

  Try the ofw pathname suggested at 
http://markmail.org/message/j4tpjpbhxobnxixu

later,

Peter.