Re: Sarge boots from external firewire drive

2004-11-02 Thread Jonathan D. Bowman
Rough summary: I had to start on my internal hard drive, install a base system, mount my firewire drive, go to runlevel 1 and copy the filesystem onto the new drive, recreate mount points like /proc and /sys, and edit the new fstab. Then, I create a new initrd image. I edit /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitr

Sarge boots from external firewire drive

2004-11-02 Thread Jonathan D. Bowman
Aaah (satisfaction). I finally got sarge to boot from my external firewire drive on a Powerbook G4. This took a while, and I had difficulty finding documentation for it -- is there documentation somewhere, or could I assist someone who is willing to document this? I would also love to help so