From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 6:29:58 2003 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 4AEE237B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 06:29:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B87243F75 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 06:29:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by mail.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 954412F9; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:29:12 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9CE762FDB20; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:28:58 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:28:58 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Steve Shorter Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot boot from SCSI disk Message-ID: <20030213142858.GL81356@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Steve Shorter , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030212145249.A429@nomad.lets.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030212145249.A429@nomad.lets.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG # 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? -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message