Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:28:58 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Steve Shorter <steve@nomad.lets.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot boot from SCSI disk Message-ID: <20030213142858.GL81356@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20030212145249.A429@nomad.lets.net> References: <20030212145249.A429@nomad.lets.net>
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# steve@nomad.lets.net / 2003-02-12 14:52:49 -0500:
> Howdy!
>
> Some hardware will not boot FreeBSD from SCSI disks unless
> the disk is formated and labled in "dedicated mode".
interesting. all I see is backpedalling from dangerously dedicated
disks in /stand/sysinstall and elsewhere, and the article you linked
below says
"Remember, dedicated mode disks sometimes cannot be booted by the PC
architecture."
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formating-media/x65.html
>
> In general SCSI disk that only contain FreeBSD should be
> formated/labled in "dedicated mode" IMHO.
what source do you have this information from?
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