From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 20:07:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC2B716A509 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:07:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cheyenne.wixb.com (cheyenne.wixb.com [65.43.82.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 544DD43D49 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:07:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jbronson@wixb.com) Organization: Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee WI USA Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.2.20041201140524.00bec200@cheyenne.wixb.com> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 14:07:55 -0600 To: "David Kelly" From: "J.D. Bronson" In-Reply-To: <1995.207.111.173.106.1101931324.squirrel@webmail.dogbark.c om> References: <6.2.0.14.2.20041201101511.00abf138@localhost> <1304.207.111.173.106.1101920332.squirrel@webmail.dogbark.com> <6.2.0.14.2.20041201112926.00ab9e30@localhost> <1995.207.111.173.106.1101931324.squirrel@webmail.dogbark.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: convert from scsi to IDE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 20:07:58 -0000 At 02:02 PM 12/1/2004, you wrote: >OK, but I think you are missing something in what I wrote. Once your tape >backup is finished shutdown and install the IDE drives. Let it continue to >boot your SCSI, which I presume also has the FreeBSD boot blocks >installed. Use sysinstall on your current system to partition, format, and >write boot blocks on the IDE drive(s). Mount the IDE drive(s) somewhere. >Then you can use dump(8) piped into restore(8) directly from HD to HD. This is cool, but my machine NEEDS to boot off of IDE. There is no way around this - even in the bios. :( So If I install IDE+SCSI, IDE will always win the boot. Even if its blank then I get MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM and it will NOT seek other devices. I can however boot off floppy and/or IDE CDROM at least :) -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care // Information Services // Milwaukee, WI USA Office: 414.978.8282 // Email: jd@aurora.org // Pager: 414.314.8282