On Jan 25, 2005, at 1:41 PM, J�rg Duurkoop wrote:
Hi,
I've been trying different firewire enclosures to boot my beige from but no luck so far. I have the Sonnet Trio PCI combo-card in a 300 Mhz MT with a rev. 2 mobo.
I've read on this list before that beige G3s do boot from firewire-disks and that the Sonnet cards give no problems. Is it the chip on the controller in the enclosure?
You're mistaken.
No Old World system boots from firewire; FW bootability didn't come along until partway through the PowerMac G4 line, Digital Audio or Gigabit ethernet, IIRC.
No mac older than that boots from firewire.
There was some discussion about how XPostFacto will allow you to specify a 'helper' drive to let you boot from Firewire; this is ok, but if the helper drive goes you're SOL.
I don't really consider this 'booting from firewire', it's more like 'running a boot loader' like one would do to choose between, say, linux and Mac OS at boot time.
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