Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 02:17:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Tet Solfire <tet@solfire.com> To: SoftGuitar@aol.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Start up with SCSI Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008310215360.48316-100000@mentat.solfire.com> In-Reply-To: <83.1ebe0d.26df4b00@aol.com>
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On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 SoftGuitar@aol.com wrote: > I had my computer loaded with Free BSD OS 4.0. It worked for a while and now > when I try to turn on my computer and run BSD it goes to the boot prompt and > tells me it could not load with floppy, CDROM or SCSI...........this messages > comes out of no where since it was never loaded with a SCSI but an IDE Hard > drive..... > How can I get it to load properly.......It really bothers me because I > want to work with BSD.. > Jesse > SoftGuitar@aol.com It sounds to me as if your SCSI Bios is not active. Unlike IDE, the SCSI Bios needs to be turned on on the card itself to boot from scsi. Check your SCSI controller to make sure the SCSI-BIOS is enabled, and that your bootable SCSI drive is ID 0. Hope this helps, -Ryan Dewalt -- tet@solfire.com - KG4GUB Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? FreeBSD: Well are you guys coming or not? UCE Confirmed Kill: 8/2k: 3 YTD: 62 - Will you be next? Spam and find out To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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