Booting FreeBSD/powerpc from external FireWire drive?

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:00:15 -0400
Paul Mather <paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote:

> On Oct 5, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Gary wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Paul Mather wrote:
> > 
> >> It works when booting from the graphical boot chooser (obtained by
> >> holding down the Option key during boot), but I couldn't figure
> >> out a way to boot from an external FireWire drive from the
> >> OpenFirmware prompt (Cmd-Opt-O-F startup).
> > 
> 
> (BTW, right now I am doing all my testing on an external FireWire
> hooked up to a PowerBook G4 laptop that does have a screen and
> built-in keyboard, so that I can familiarise myself with the install
> and boot process in preparation for hooking it up to the Xserve G5
> that lacks these graphical amenities.)
> 

On the PowerBook, examine the properties of the OF /chosen node
(ofwdump -p /chosen). That should give you the device path used by OF to
boot the system.
-Nathan