From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 20 01:59:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA12219 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 01:59:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Bespin.worldnet.net (bespin.worldnet.net [195.3.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA12209 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 01:59:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pcasidy@worldnet.fr) Received: from greatoak (p14-003.province.worldnet.fr [195.3.14.3]) by Bespin.worldnet.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12857; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 10:58:21 +0100 (CET) Received: (from pcasidy@localhost) by greatoak (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA00302; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 09:52:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pcasidy) Message-Id: <199811200852.JAA00302@greatoak> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 09:52:15 +0100 (CET) From: Philippe CASIDY Subject: How to boot from a SCSI disk? To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG cc: pcasidy@worldnet.fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! I have install FreeBSD 2.2.7 on a friend of mine's computer. He has Windows on the IDE disk and added a SCSI one for FreeBSD. We did not had any trouble while installing the system on the SCSI disk (the controller is an Adaptec 15xx : aic controller). The problem is about booting. Its BIOS does not provide any solution to boot from a SCSI device. It cannot afford to reinstall the / slice on an IDE disk. Is there a way to boot from floppy, dos, windows (we do not have a compiler to compile winboot)? I have browse the handbook, the FAQs, the mailing list with no success! Does any one can point me to information about how to solve this problem? Is there any body willing to write an "How to boot from an unreckonized SCSI disk?" Faq? Thanks. Phil. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message