Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 07:32:54 +0200 From: "freebsd" <george@vagner.com> To: "Mike Tancsa" <mike@sentex.net>, "Theo Bell" <freebsd@cfdnet.me.tuns.ca> Cc: "Joel Bjork" <u98jobj@stud.hh.se>, <hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: forcing which SCSI device to boot from Message-ID: <LPBBKFCBJMKMFLIMDPEJCEFHCGAA.george@vagner.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20000809122159.02c54660@marble.sentex.ca>
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i believe you can "wire down" the device in a kernel config.
I done it on a 3.1 system.
check the FAQ on www.freebsd.org
No 2 things can be the same, they cannot
exist in the same space at the same time.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mike Tancsa
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 6:24 PM
To: Theo Bell
Cc: Joel Bjork; hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: RE: forcing which SCSI device to boot from
At 01:25 PM 8/9/00 -0300, Theo Bell wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I think you may have to disable the one you don't want to boot from in the
>BIOS.
Hi,
Unfortunately there does not seem to be a way to do this in the 3ware
card's BIOS :-( Nor does the MB's BIOS give enough granularity to specify
which "SCSI device" to boot from.
Does anyone have a URL to instructions to create a boot floppy. I am
searching through the archives, but am having problems finding the
reference to the instructions.
---Mike
>Theo Bell
>CFDnet.com Development Team
>--------------------------------------
>
>On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
> > At 06:01 PM 8/9/00 +0200, Joel Bjork wrote:
> >
> > >On 09-Aug-00 Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have an Adaptec 2940 and a 3ware IDE raid card. I have been
> booting from
> > > > the Adaptec, but when I put the 3ware card in, the drive insists on
> booting
> > > > from the 3ware. Apart from making a boot floppy disk, is there any
> way to
> > > > force the drive to boot from the Adaptec ?
> > > >
> > > > ---Mike
> > >Sounds like a BIOS issue, check the bootorder in the Bios, defaults are
> > >ususally: floppy, IDE, SCSI
> >
> > Thanks, but I think the problem is that the BIOS sees the Adaptec and
the
> > 3ware card BOTH as SCSI devices.
> >
> > ---Mike
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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