From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 27 23:07:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA24029 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 23:07:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from proxy4.ba.best.com (root@proxy4.ba.best.com [206.184.139.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA24024 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 23:07:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsampley@best.com) Received: from shell9.ba.best.com (bsampley@shell9.ba.best.com [206.184.139.140]) by proxy4.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id XAA06147; Sat, 27 Dec 1997 23:06:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 23:06:20 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley X-Sender: bsampley@shell9.ba.best.com To: Studded cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE and SCSI drives not playing well together In-Reply-To: <34A5A784.8843CB4B@dal.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I think I read somewhere in the archives that there is no way to make > two completely separate freebsd installations work on the same system, Actually I have found this statement to be false. Some motherboards which have Award BIOS have a BIOS setting which determines whether to boot from IDE or SCSI. Fortunately my motherboard (Asus P/I P55T2P4) supports this option. I have been able to 'chose' which version of FBSD to boot from for several months now as I migrate to a completely SCSI system. I have been able for several months to boot 2 different versions of FBSD from either my SCSI drives or from my IDE drives. I'll finally 'pull the plug' on the IDE drives when I finally have everything settled exactly how I want it. Check the BIOS on your motherboard for this option. If you only change this setting you can then boot from the SCSI drive and then manually mount the IDE drive(s) to migrate your data. Hope this helps. - burton -