Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 12:34:49 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: jcwells@u.washington.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ide win\scsi bsd dual boot Message-ID: <199804201734.MAA02286@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980420095322.9531E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from Doug White at "Apr 20, 98 10:00:41 am"
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In a previous message, Doug White said: > On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: > > > I tried disabling all IDE drives in CMOS to force the scsi to boot. No > > go. > > hm... > > > My CMOS is completely silent regarding anything to do with SCSI. (Award > > BIOS v4.5) I believe I have Award BIOS on my Gygabyte MB. You can tell it boot order, including SCSI before C: or A:. > I have an Award in my ASUS board, but ASUS adds support for their SC-200 > boards to the BIOS. > > > Also, during boot the 2940UW never gives me a "Hit Ctrl-A for SCSI > > Select" that I have read about. Does this tell me anything? > > That would be really wierd. If you don't get that BIOS it would tend to > indicate that the onboard BIOS on the 2940 is disabled or corrupted. The BIOS isn't installed if the boot disk is an IDE. > > Also, during boot one can explicitly tell BSD where to boot from. I > > normally boot 0:wd(0,a)kernel. My new disc should boot something like > > $NUMBER:sd(0,a)kernel. How do I find $NUMBER for a SCSI disk? > > Try omitting it for starters, then maybe try 1. $NUMBER is a fudge factor > for the BIOS disk numbers (ie, how to reach 0x82, 0x83, etc.) > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Of course there's no reason for it, it's just our policy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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