Re: Bootable Firewire Drives

"Daniel O'Connor" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.firewire
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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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