From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 8 17:04:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12863 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 17:04:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12823 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 17:04:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA10165; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 17:00:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199809090000.RAA10165@implode.root.com> To: Jim Jagielski cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving from wd to sd In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 08 Sep 1998 16:25:22 EDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 17:00:58 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >We have a bit of a strange situation. We've recently had a customer move >over to us and want their server upgraded. Now most of these upgrades >we've already done (such as more memory, upgrade to 2.2.7, etc.) but >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)... > >Any ideas on how to easily implement this? Go into the BIOS and change the IDE drive to 'not installed'. FreeBSD will still be able to figure out the geometry settings, but the BIOS will skip it and boot the SCSI disk instead. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message