From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jul 30 02:52:24 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id CAA01684 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 02:52:24 -0700 Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.129.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA01677 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 02:52:19 -0700 Received: (from robin@localhost) by rucus.ru.ac.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA00244 for freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 11:43:46 +0200 From: Robin Lunn Message-Id: <199507300943.LAA00244@rucus.ru.ac.za> Subject: Suggestion. To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 11:43:45 +0200 (SAT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 978 Sender: bugs-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi there, One other thing I meant to mention is that in the install program if you set things up such that you wish to boot from a SCSI device while having an IDE card in it, the system wont boot. We broke some teeth on that problem for sometime before finding info in our Adaptec manual to the effect that while one has a IDE controller in the system it is impossible to boot of an SCSI device. I think most of you will only be using SCSI devices and so not have come accross this problem much. Suggestion: in the install program if the installer tries to boot from the SCSI while IDE controller was detected, warn them that this is impossible on the IBM PC platform. -- _ __ ' ) ) / /--' ____/___o __ / \_(_) /_) (__/) )_ (BeamJack@IRC) "The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling" (Ursula LeGuin) Standard Disclaimer: Only my ideas are expressed here unless it is expressly noted that they are other peoples ideas.