Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 10:58:06 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: asachs@iafrica.com (Andre Sachs [Staff]) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting SCSI first over IDE Message-ID: <199704071558.KAA25151@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970405113005.25112B-100000@donald.iafrica.com> from "Andre Sachs [Staff]" at "Apr 5, 97 11:42:26 am"
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In a previous message, Andre Sachs [Staff] said: > > Hi All, > > I'm running 2.2-RELEASE. > > I have an AHA2940 with a Seagate SCSI drive and a Seagate IDE drive. When > I enable the IDE drive in the BIOS, (after BS-OS to boot off the SCSI) > the kernel panics because it can't mount / on sd1. Fair enough recompile > the kernel to mount root on sd1 and it fails again. Vexing. > > I even tryed changing the fstab to reflect sd1. Failed again. > > I have heard that it is possible to force the IDE to slave using the cable > select option, is this the only solution? If so could a kind soul point me > to the instructions for wiring a cable select bus cable? > > Basically i would like to boot the SCSI as my primary and the use a boot > manager to get at the IDE for Windoze. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated > > Regards > Andre My MBs Bios (AMI) allows me to choice between C: and SCSI for the boot disk. Pretty cool. My MotherBoard is a Gigabyte. I like it very much. Paul. -- "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer." -- Henry Kissinger
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