Boot Linux from a FireWire Device
By Martyn Honeyford2005-04-12
Resources
• For tips on troubleshooting installation of USB mass storage devices on Linux, see Adding USB mass storage devices in Fedora Core .
• IEEE 1394 for Linux offers information and links on FireWire on Linux.
• Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, has articles on FireWire and on boot loaders . For Linux, the most common boot loaders are LILO and GNU GRUB .
• The sbp2 hotplug patch and the SPB-Linux patches are useful for one-phase boot operations.
• For help in creating your own custom initrd image from scratch, see The Linux Bootdisk HOWTO . To tailor an existing initrd image to your own needs, see Brian Writes about His BOEL ( Linux Devices , 2002), which is based on tomsrtbt (see also BuildElToritoFloppyImage from the tomsrtbt wiki.
• " Knoppix gives bootable, one-disk Linux " ( developerWorks , February 2003) introduces this one-CD, bootable Linux distro.
• " Access USB devices from Java applications " ( developerWorks , September 2003) examines two projects which provide APIs through which Java applications can make use of USB devices.
• " Burning CDs on Linux " ( developerWorks , 2003) shows how to create your own .iso images using the full power of the command line.
• Previously on developerWorks , Martyn wrote " Connecting KDE applications using DCOP " ( developerWorks , February 2004), " Postmortem memory profiling with PERL " ( developerWorks , December 2003), and the Significant trace series of articles ( developerWorks , April 2003).
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