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Boot from FireWire Hard drive

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by adelhier

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I would like to know if someone has or knows how to boot an os like XP of a firewire aka IEEE 1394.
If so what is the prosess need to do this.

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by durocshark

Seems to me that would be dependant on either the motherboard BIOS supporting firewire directly, or the firewire card you're using has the ability to overwrite the mb BIOS and make it's drive the primary. Are any of these in existance currently? I sure haven't seen it...

by adelhier

Thanks i fig that much but i have not heard of a BIOS or card that could boot.
Thanks for the information.

Andy

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