From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 1 6: 4:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3891537B401 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 06:04:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.iskon.hr (mail.iskon.hr [213.191.128.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C65FE43F79 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 06:04:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ivoras@fer.hr) Received: (qmail 1258 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2003 15:03:53 +0100 Received: from unknown (HELO flatline) (213.191.147.30) by mail.iskon.hr with SMTP; 1 Feb 2003 15:03:53 +0100 Message-ID: <00c801c2c9fa$c65b62c0$e602a8c0@shara.net> From: "Ivan Voras" To: References: <20030131114149.GA75587@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20030131114149.GA75587@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <5.1.0.14.2.20030201140556.02a7e690@helios.earthmagic.org> Subject: Re: ata33 vs others? Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 15:04:02 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG J.'LoneWolf' Mattsson wrote: [ snip: adding ata100 controller ] >> This is normally the easy bit. If you don't want to boot off a drive >> connected to this controller you don't have to do anything in the BIOS. >> If you want to boot off this controller, simply change the boot >> order/device to attempt "External" or "SCSI" first. I think Abit refers >> to it as "External", but otherwise the "SCSI" option should work well >> (unless of course there's an onboard SCSI controller on the motherboard). What are my options if the BIOS is stupid/old enough not to have such a knob? I'll be facing a similar situation very soon, and I'm considering following options: a) Putting only a boot sector on a floppy (the machine will not be rebooted much) b) if that fails, is there something else to be put on a floppy? the loader? how? c) like a) or b), on a CD-R disc. -- Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they can make your life miserable by doing nothing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message