Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 14:13:12 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Aram Compeau <aram@tibco.com> Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: forcing which SCSI device to boot from Message-ID: <39919F38.4B708B62@mitre.org> References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000809115949.0296a970@marble.sentex.ca> <4.3.2.7.0.20000809111509.05e3b600@marble.sentex.ca> <4.3.2.7.0.20000809111509.05e3b600@marble.sentex.ca> <20000809100054.A93412@panzer.kdm.org> <4.3.2.7.0.20000809115949.0296a970@marble.sentex.ca> <4.3.2.7.0.20000809124737.02c3f100@marble.sentex.ca> <39919B81.8381BE5D@tibco.com>
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Aram Compeau wrote: > > I have no experience with IDE RAID controllers, but I believe you are normally > stuck booting from an IDE drive if you have a system with mixed IDE ? SCSI drives. > However, I know you said the BIOS seems to see the IDE RAID controller as a SCSI > device (which I found surprising). Anyway, just a thought. > Well, a common trick is just to stick some sort of boot loader (like xosl) on the IDE drive and have it point to the SCSI drive. I don't know if this will work with the funky IDE/SCSI RAID card however. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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