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Boot Linux from a FireWire device (developerWorks)
This IBM developerWorks article walks
through a Gentoo install on an external FireWire drive. "Once
you have booted with the install CD, with a bit of luck it should have
recognized your drive. The drive should appear as a disk under /dev/sdX,
where X is a lowercase letter starting at "a." On my system, the external
drive was detected as /dev/sda, but this will vary if you have other SCSI
disks (or emulated SCSI disks); in that case, it might be /dev/sdb or some
other letter. If your drive is not detected automatically, some further
steps may be required -- for instance, you might have to pass boot options
to enable FireWire or PCMCIA, or you might have to manually load some
kernel modules, or other things of that sort."
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