From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 9:28:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD22537BD30; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 09:28:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA06214; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:28:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA25164; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:28:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000809122159.02c54660@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 12:24:08 -0400 To: Theo Bell From: Mike Tancsa Subject: RE: forcing which SCSI device to boot from Cc: Joel Bjork , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000809120051.0299c4a0@marble.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:25 PM 8/9/00 -0300, Theo Bell wrote: >Hello, > >I think you may have to disable the one you don't want to boot from in the >BIOS. Hi, Unfortunately there does not seem to be a way to do this in the 3ware card's BIOS :-( Nor does the MB's BIOS give enough granularity to specify which "SCSI device" to boot from. Does anyone have a URL to instructions to create a boot floppy. I am searching through the archives, but am having problems finding the reference to the instructions. ---Mike >Theo Bell >CFDnet.com Development Team >-------------------------------------- > >On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > At 06:01 PM 8/9/00 +0200, Joel Bjork wrote: > > > > >On 09-Aug-00 Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > > > > > > I have an Adaptec 2940 and a 3ware IDE raid card. I have been > booting from > > > > the Adaptec, but when I put the 3ware card in, the drive insists on > booting > > > > from the 3ware. Apart from making a boot floppy disk, is there any > way to > > > > force the drive to boot from the Adaptec ? > > > > > > > > ---Mike > > >Sounds like a BIOS issue, check the bootorder in the Bios, defaults are > > >ususally: floppy, IDE, SCSI > > > > Thanks, but I think the problem is that the BIOS sees the Adaptec and the > > 3ware card BOTH as SCSI devices. > > > > ---Mike > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications mike@sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message