From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 25 08:59:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA09835 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:59:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from psiint.com (vv.psiint.com [204.189.53.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA09827 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:58:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by psiint.com (8.6.12/4.03) id IAA69733; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:58:48 -0800 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:58:48 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Walton To: Michael Smith cc: wes@intele.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting off SCSI disks when two IDE disks also installed. In-Reply-To: <199603240855.TAA24127@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 24 Mar 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > wes@intele.net stands accused of saying: > > > > I've recently added an Adaptec SCSI controller to my system, which > > already has two IDE drives. I would like to boot FreeBSD from the > > SCSI disk, but this doesn't seem to be working. I'm certain I have > > That's because it's impossible. You can only boot from the first two > disks in your system. This is basically a BIOS limitation. That's not strictly true. I have an Adaptec 2842 running sd0, sd1, and sd2. I boot DOS from sd0 and FreeBSD from sd2 using OSBS-Beta. I don't have IDE, so I don't know how that complicates the situation, though. > > I've also tried both booteasy and OS-BS. Any help? Try OSBS-Beta. Dave ========================================================================== David Walton Unix Programmer PSI INTERNATIONAL, Inc. email: dwalton@psiint.com 190 South Orchard #C200 Fax :(707)451-6484 Vacaville, CA 95688 Phone:(707)451-3503 ==========================================================================