Bootable Firewire Drives

[Sean Bruno]

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.

Sean

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[Daniel O'Connor-3]

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)

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[Julian Stecklina-4]

Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@...> writes:

> 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.

It could be implemented as Option ROM on a Firewire controller,
regardless of the BIOS. I haven't seen one, though.

Regards,
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Julian Stecklina

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they start making vacuum cleaners - Ernst Jan Plugge

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