YDL and firewire drive

[Gavin Hemphill]

YDL 3 boots fine from a firewire drive, thats the way I'm running my YDL 
system now.  Search the archives for Bill Fink's howto boot ppc linux 
from and external firewire drive.  Note: the discussion about devfs 
seems to be a little off the mark since I'm using labels to mount my 
root system without following any of that stuff.  To install to a 
firewire drive you will have to use the full up kernel rather than the 
BOOT version, and modify the initrd as specified in the howto.
	G++

Michael George wrote:

> I just found out that YDL will not install onto a firewire drive.  And 
> according to the installation guide, one cannot boot YDL from a firewire 
> drive.
> 
> Does anyone know of a workaround that will allow installing onto a 
> firewire drive?  I know I can get SuSE on Intel to install from a USB 
> CD-ROM by manually installing the appropriate drivers before continuing 
> the install (needless to say, I had to boot from either a floppy or an 
> ATAPI CD-ROM).
> 
> If not, then I can possibly remove the drive from the firewire case and 
> install onto it as an ATAPI drive.
> 
> However, what I *really* want YDL for is to install it on a 20Gb drive 
> that I can boot through the OpenBoot screen (hold the Opt key on boot) 
> and have my iBook come up running YDL.  I have been able to clone my OSX 
> install onto a firewire drive and can successfully boot to it, so I know 
> there are no hardware limitations.  However, I'm sure hot-unplugging 
> that drive would raise holy hell with the OS, but I'm smarter than that 
> most of the time.
> 
> The next thing I want to do then, with this setup is to have my iBook 
> stand in for our company server (XServe) while I'm upgrading it to YDL 
> 3.0.1.  In case of emergency (failed update or something) I could also 
> boot that XServe to that same external drive.  I like to plan for 
> contingencies.
> 
> Has anyone tried or been able to (install to/boot from) an external 
> firewire drive?
> 
> -Michael
> 
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