Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:49:50 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> Cc: pete collins <pcollins@ocsny.com>, ppawlacz@UWinnipeg.ca, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM Installation Problem Message-ID: <36AEE13E.6F1DE26A@uk.radan.com> References: <Pine.OSF.3.95.990125120733.23562C-100000@io.uwinnipeg.ca> <36ACBEC5.C341B49C@ocsny.com> <19990126112637.6970.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
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Greg Black wrote: > > > you have to change to boot order to cdrom first in your bios settings > > This is not necessarily correct. On my all-SCSI system, I have > to tell the BIOS to boot from A: first in order to boot from the > CD-ROM. The Adaptec controller sees the bootable CD, remaps it > to A: and remaps the A: floppy to B: and then boots from the CD. > :-/ That seems a bit messy. My machine is all-SCSI (except the floppy) with a Diamond Fireport SCSI adaptor. Both IDE channels are disabled in the BIOS and the boot order is set to A:, C:, CDROM. Obviously as there are no IDE disks the BIOS on the SCSI adaptor takes over and boots from the HD. If I want to boot from the CD I have to enable "probe at boot" for the CD in the SCSI BIOS. I could leave this set, but it means that if the CD drive contains a bootable CD it will boot from it (makes no difference if the probe order is set to "high to low" or "low to high", which is strange). > -- > Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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