Booting FreeBSD/powerpc from external FireWire drive?

[Gary]

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).

Presumably you have it temporarily connected to a monitor in order to
learn that holding Option lets you boot from the external drive. In
that case, have you tried booting in to OS X and choosing that drive
from the "Startup Disk" system preferences?

-Gary