Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 07:22:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Cc: robin@rucus.ru.ac.za, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Suggestion. Message-ID: <199507310522.HAA02131@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199507301737.TAA07981@blaise.ibp.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Jul 30, 95 07:37:56 pm
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As Ollivier Robert wrote: > > > 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. > > It is not that impossible with our boot blocks. You can ask to boot from > hd() instead of sd()/wd(). It will then boot from the SCSI drive. The boot > blocks are to be on the IDE drive of course. Broken PC arch. again... I don't think it's a question of the boot blocks. It's a matter of the BIOS chosing the IDE(s) as drives 0x80 and 0x81, and trying to boot only off drives 0 and 0x80. However, you could disable the IDE(s) in the BIOS and should get the SCSI adapter hook its drives with SCSI ID(s) 0 and 1 in place for the BIOS drives 0x80 and 0x81. You won't be able to use the IDE(s) from DOS then, but it should be possible to use them from FreeBSD. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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