Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 02:00:53 -0700 From: wes@intele.net To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting off SCSI disks when two IDE disks also installed. Message-ID: <199603240900.CAA03407@obie.softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <199603240855.TAA24127@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199603240736.AAA01522@obie.softweyr.com> <199603240855.TAA24127@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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wes@intele.net stands accused of saying:
% I've recently added an Adaptec SCSI controller to my system, which
% already has two IDE drives. I would like to boot FreeBSD from the
% SCSI disk, but this doesn't seem to be working. I'm certain I have
Michael Smith knowingly replied:
> That's because it's impossible. You can only boot from the first two
> disks in your system. This is basically a BIOS limitation.
I was afraid of that. I keep thinking that with FreeBSD, you can make
a PC work pretty much as well as a *real* workstation. Except you
keep bumping into the idiot limitations of the PC architecture (or
lack thereof). <Sigh>
% I've also tried both booteasy and OS-BS. Any help?
> Put a root filesystem on the IDE disk.
Will do. Thanks for the quick info. I guess I'll Re-organize
everything and boot FreeBSD from the little (420 Mb) IDE disk.
--
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