Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 18:05:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Jagielski <jim@jaguNET.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving from wd to sd Message-ID: <199809082205.SAA28585@devsys.jaguNET.com> In-Reply-To: <v03130300b21b41a6a8d9@[206.156.220.6]> from "Jim Jagielski" at Sep 8, 98 04:25:22 pm
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I wrote wrote: > > We are also recommending that they "drop" using the internal IDE drive > and instead use SCSI (they already have a 2940 installed and are using it > only to drive a DAT backup). Now the process in moving the files from > the IDE to SCSI are pretty easy (use sysinstall to format and partition > the SCSI drive, then temp mount it and use a dump|restore pipe to > transfer the file systems). All well and good. The "problem" is that > obviously we now want to boot from the SCSI drive, not the IDE drive. > I'm planning on just removing the IDE drive (but keeping the CDROM rom, > which is also IDE... Hmmm. possible problem?) but need to adjust the MBR > to boot from 'sd' by default. We'll have a weird setup (SCSI drive for FBSD > but using the IDE CDROM, since it's not used hardly at all)... > Just in case it's not clear. We're planning on adjusting the BIOS to either avoid the IDE disk totally (if we remove it) or change the boot order. -- =========================================================================== Jim Jagielski ||| jim@jaguNET.com ||| http://www.jaguNET.com/ "That's no ordinary rabbit... that's the most foul, cruel and bad-tempered rodent you ever laid eyes on" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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