Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 08:43:15 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Adding IDE to SCSI Message-ID: <199701021443.IAA24714@horton.iaces.com>
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Hi, I'm trying to add an IDE drive to a previously all SCSI 486 system. I'm putting Windows 95 on the IDE and am going to eventually reinstall FreeBSD on my SCSI drive, but in the mean time want to just add booteasy (or OSBS) to the IDE so it points to the SCSI to boot FreeBSD (and old Win 95 slice until I get everything installed on the new disk). However the first time I did this, I got the "operating system missing" message when trying to boot FreeBSD or the old Win slice. I have 2 possiblities for this: 1) I installed booteasy on the IDE drive via a DOS shell under Win95. (and left OS/BS on the SCSI disk) 2) When installing booteasy, I had ROM shadowing on for the IDE controller. It's manual said not to. I installed 2.2 Beta as from what I read, 2.1.[56] wouldn't be able to handle sd0 as sd0 when it's not the first BIOS disk. Also, somehow the SCSI disks slice information got written onto the IDE drive. I think this might have something to do with the shadowing. As it stands now. Win 95 is installed on the new disk, and it's controller is unplugged. I plug it in, and I can boot that disk, and pull it to run FreeBSD. Suggestions? Thanks, Paul. -- Half a bee, Must ipso facto, But half a bee Vis a Vis it's entity Philosophically, Half not be; Has got to be You see?
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