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#1 2008-05-14 14:19:39

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does arch support booting from an external firewire cdrom drive?

as above?

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#2 2008-05-14 15:15:33

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Re: does arch support booting from an external firewire cdrom drive?

If the mobo provides that function through bios provisions the arch system should boot.

EDIT:  There may be issues with udev and mkinitcpio to ensure the boot sequence is not terminated by the udev detection.

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#3 2008-05-14 16:14:49

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Re: does arch support booting from an external firewire cdrom drive?

ok just making sure, my bios supports booting from it but other distros ive tried like debian didnt work very well.

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