Have never worked with firewire.  But as it works in a similar fashion to
scsi I suspect you will be able to get this to work.  There are several
issue which you will need to deal with.  Booting directly from the firewire
drive will most likely not be possible.  The reason is that IDE likes to go
first.  So unless the bios has an option to boot from the firewire port I
expect you will need to "# grub-install /dev/hda" to get the boot loader
rolling.  The other issue is that you will need to be sure that the initrd
includes the firewire modules.  Again I am not sure but are the drivers for
this port in the release?  Can you get the drivers for linux?  If the
drivers are not in the release but you can get them on disk for linux you
will need to do an expert install of RH and feed the driver disk when asked.
What exactly is the problem you are currently having?.

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd A. Jacobs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 2:26 AM
To: RedHat List
Subject: Booting from external FireWire drive


Has anyone had any experience with getting Linux to boot from an external 
FireWire drive--especially through a Vaio Z505-JS i.Link port? I've 
searched extensively via Google, and haven't turned up a single reference 
to someone doing this successfully.

Any feedback or useful links would be very much appreciated.

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