From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 8 15:05:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22199 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 15:05:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from devsys.jaguNET.com (devsys.jaguNET.com [206.156.208.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA22191 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 15:05:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@jaguNET.com) Received: (from jim@localhost) by devsys.jaguNET.com (8.9.1/jag-2.4) id SAA28585 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 18:05:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Jagielski Message-Id: <199809082205.SAA28585@devsys.jaguNET.com> Subject: Re: Moving from wd to sd To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 18:05:01 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: jim@jaguNET.com In-Reply-To: from "Jim Jagielski" at Sep 8, 98 04:25:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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