From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 7:22:24 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 A0F8E37B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:22:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA05D43FDD for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:22:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18jLBt-000FcN-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:22:21 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id 474801668 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:22:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id DE6FAC84B for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:21:37 +0100 (CET) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id 5BCAB225F9; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:21:38 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:21:38 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot boot from SCSI disk Message-ID: <20030213152138.GC4472@raggedclown.net> References: <20030212145249.A429@nomad.lets.net> <20030213142858.GL81356@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030213142858.GL81356@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 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 On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:28:58PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # 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? > I was wondering that myself, since I have 4.7 all on it's own on a SCSI disk and it certainly is not dangerously dedicated - something which I thought had gone into retirement anyway in these modern times. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message