Re: Boot iBook off firewire drive?
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 05:10:17PM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
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> Can the iBook boot off a firewire drive?
I don't *think* so. OTOH It'll probably work as a normal external disk.
Check the available documentation:
http://www.imaclinux.net/gh.php?single=69+index=0
http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/faq.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux1394/
> Can Linux load this way (using one of the available boot loaders).
On a side note, you'll probably want yaboot. I'm not sure there are
any other current loaders for Apple hardware.
> How would I go about starting up into Linux? Can I set this as my startup disk
> in Mac OS X and restart? Or would I have to go into OS 9 and use BootX?
You can tell the firmware to always start by loading yaboot from its own
tuny boot partition, which can then give you a choice of booting into
GNU/Linux, MacOS 9, or OS X (or from CD, or go directly to the Open
Firmware shell). This is in fact a lot more convenient than MacOS' way
of letting you choose your boot OS, which involves a persistent setting
IIRC. So yaboot may be worth checking out even if you don't want to run
another OS than MacOS 9 or OS X.
HTH,
Jeroen
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