From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 24 0:30:44 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 BD30A37B401 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 00:30:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from mgw1-out.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 072C443F3F for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 00:30:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from VirusGate.MEIway.com (virus-gate.meiway.com [212.73.210.91]) by mgw1-out.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id A2B7BEF9AD for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:18:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost.meiway.com [127.0.0.1]) by VirusGate.MEIway.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 492255D00A for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:33:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by VirusGate.MEIway.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2BE55D009 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:33:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from tx0-go2france-c.Go2France.com [66.64.14.18] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AC47252010E; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:48:07 +0100 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030224022557.025a1a00@mail.go2france.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.go2france.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 02:30:36 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: booting from Promise tx2000 In-Reply-To: <200302240840.44934.will@unfoldings.net> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030223184703.03e52cc0@mail.go2france.com> <5.2.0.9.0.20030223184703.03e52cc0@mail.go2france.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 >If your BIOS supports this, try setting the boot device in CMOS >configuration to SCSI Boot Device. it does, and that's how we have it. > The problem is that the offboard ATA >controller you are using has its own BIOS, thus the system BIOS will not >boot a disk attatched to it. I don't think so, the system BIOS scans the i/o address space for executable segements and passes control to any that it finds, giving the disk controller card a chance to run its own code, hook interrupts, etc. > Setting SCSI boot device will mostly make your >BIOS offer to hand booting over to what ever device offers to take it. Most >(modern) ATA controllers respond to the call for a "SCSI boot device" and >take controle, then booting the system from the hard drives they own. agreed, but it's not happening. We've played a lot with the System bios settings and with the tx2000 bios setup utility, which sees the drives correctly. Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message