On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 05:10:17PM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
