From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 19:22: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82E9A37BC5A; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 19:21:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (chimp [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA13677; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 22:21:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000809221502.047996d8@mail.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@mail.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 22:16:07 -0400 To: Tony Finch From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: forcing which SCSI device to boot from Cc: questions@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20000809221521.D468@hand.dotat.at> References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000809111509.05e3b600@marble.sentex.ca> <4.3.2.7.0.20000809111509.05e3b600@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 10:15 PM 8/9/2000 +0000, Tony Finch wrote: >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 ? > >When we had this problem we just overwrote the boot blocks on the 3ware. >Invalid boot blocks -> no boot. Hi, What if you rebuild the array, or the array dies ? Also, how do you set the boot blocks to no boot ? Thanks, ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message