From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 14:53:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA28187 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 14:53:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA28103 Thu, 7 Mar 1996 14:52:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA03234; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:29:06 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603072259.JAA03234@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: SCSI woes. To: urcf@fang.cs.sunyit.edu (Rodney C. Forbes) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:29:05 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603071319.IAA03693@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> from "Rodney C. Forbes" at Mar 7, 96 08:19:55 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Rodney C. Forbes stands accused of saying: > Is it possible to boot off a SCSI hard drive when an IDE is also in > the system? Yes. > I just installed a 730MB SCSI hard drive that I would like to > dedicate to FreeBSD. I currently have a 540MB IDE that is being > shared by DOS and FreeBSD. I would like the IDE drive to end up > dedicated to DOS/WINDOWS. I would like to find a boot manager that > would let me boot DOS off the IDE and FreeBSD off the SCSI. I tried > OS-BS and the one the comes with FreeBSD, and if they do support > this, I must have missed something in the installation. If you can > help, I would appreciate it. You don't say what happened when you tried the FBSD bootmanager. Did it list the second disk? If not, do you have a SCSI controller with a BIOS? > \'o.O' urcf@fang.sunyit.edu (Rodney C. Forbes) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[