From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 4 04:26:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA21239 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 04:26:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from opengovt.open.org (opengovt.open.org [199.2.104.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA21196 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 04:26:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from clark@open.org) Received: (from root@localhost) by opengovt.open.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA11112; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 04:13:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from opengovt17.open.org(199.2.104.17) by opengovt.open.org via smap (V2.0) id xmam11061; Sun, 4 Jan 98 04:13:10 -0800 Received: from localhost (clark@localhost) by open.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA00720; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 15:18:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from clark@orthanc.off.net) Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 15:18:24 -0800 (PST) From: Robert Clark To: Burton Sampley cc: Studded , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE and SCSI drives not playing well together In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In situations where there is not the option to choose to boot from SCSI instead of IDE, you can often just set the CMOS type of the drive to 0 or none. In odball situations like W95 on IDE and two different versions of FreeBSD on one SCSI, fbsdboot can come in handy. Or if things get really odd, pfdisk with a script helps. [RC] On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Burton Sampley wrote: > > I think I read somewhere in the archives that there is no way to make > > two completely separate freebsd installations work on the same system, > > Actually I have found this statement to be false. Some motherboards which > have Award BIOS have a BIOS setting which determines whether to boot from > IDE or SCSI. Fortunately my motherboard (Asus P/I P55T2P4) supports this > option. I have been able to 'chose' which version of FBSD to boot from > for several months now as I migrate to a completely SCSI system. I have > been able for several months to boot 2 different versions of FBSD from > either my SCSI drives or from my IDE drives. I'll finally 'pull the plug' > on the IDE drives when I finally have everything settled exactly how I > want it. > > Check the BIOS on your motherboard for this option. If you only change > this setting you can then boot from the SCSI drive and then manually mount > the IDE drive(s) to migrate your data. > > Hope this helps. > > - burton - > > >