From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 27 01:50:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA21820 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 01:50:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA21814 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 01:50:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 105Rc8-0001RE-00; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:50:25 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id JAA02310; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:50:18 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03599; Wed, 27 Jan 99 09:50:16 GMT Message-Id: <36AEE13E.6F1DE26A@uk.radan.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:49:50 +0000 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Black Cc: pete collins , ppawlacz@UWinnipeg.ca, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM Installation Problem References: <36ACBEC5.C341B49C@ocsny.com> <19990126112637.6970.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > 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