Booting from Firewire |
October, 14, 2002 2:42 PM |
phickman |
Trying to boot from a firewire drive on a 9600/233. Apparently need an update for the firmware, but can't find anything. Any help would be appreciated |
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RE: Booting from Firewire |
October, 16, 2002 7:41 AM |
gx77 |
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that'd be great. when i got my firewire card, i got a 45GB firewire drive, thinking i'd be able to boot X off of it. I didn't realize the open firmware problem until i got the stuff installed, and i was forced to buy a 4.6GB SCSI drive so that i could run X. It's too small to install a lot of apps on it, and i already keep my user data on my firewire drive due to space limitations. it'd be great if i could install 10.x on my firewire drive and never have to worry about space considerations again. |
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RE: Booting from Firewire |
October, 16, 2002 6:52 AM |
OSXGuru |
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That's correct, booting from Firewire doesn't work unless you have a built-in Firewire port. The reason is that the Firewire card manufacturers don't included Open Firmware drivers, which are required to boot Mac OS X. But I do have a scheme in mind that should work around the problem, and plan to include it in version 3. (Which will be a little while coming yet). |
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RE: Booting from Firewire |
October, 14, 2002 4:27 PM |
gx77 |
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as far as i know, you can't boot from a firewire drive in oldworld machines. currently, only newer machines are capable of this, but i believe ryan mentioned trying to work it into the 3.0 version of XPF. |