Linux Should support booting from USB harddrive.

Donald Becker becker at scyld.com
Mon Oct 14 16:44:08 PDT 2002


On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Dominic Wu wrote:

> Is it the same case with Firewire Drives?  I have a real jolly good time
> booting up between the internal drive and the Firewire drive of my Mac Cube
> and thought gee, wouldn't it be nice if I could do the same thing on the
> PC's.

Hmmm, I don't know of any PC system that can boot from Firewire drives.
It should be possible to use the same technique (initial ramdisk with
modules), but I haven't actually done it.

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