From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 24 01:01:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA14750 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 01:01:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (slcmodem1-p1-12.intele.net [206.29.206.111]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA14742 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 01:01:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id CAA03407; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 02:00:53 -0700 Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 02:00:53 -0700 Message-Id: <199603240900.CAA03407@obie.softweyr.com> From: wes@intele.net To: Michael Smith CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting off SCSI disks when two IDE disks also installed. In-Reply-To: <199603240855.TAA24127@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199603240736.AAA01522@obie.softweyr.com> <199603240855.TAA24127@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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). % 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. -- Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate... wes@intele.net | Jimmy Buffett