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From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
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Subject: Re: Booting SCSI first over IDE
To: asachs@iafrica.com (Andre Sachs [Staff])
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 10:58:06 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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.


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