From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 11:11:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (mwunix.mitre.org [128.29.154.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6ED837BEDC; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 11:11:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA16764; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 14:10:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA11013; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 14:08:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id FZ1EI100.1ZL; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 14:10:49 -0400 Message-ID: <39919F38.4B708B62@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 14:13:12 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aram Compeau Cc: Mike Tancsa , "Kenneth D. Merry" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: forcing which SCSI device to boot from 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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