Date: Sat, 07 Mar 1998 15:03:19 +0100 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, are.bryne@communique.no Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD off SCSI w/o SCSI bios Message-ID: <8455.889279399@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 7 Mar 1998 14:25:04 %2B0100" References: <19980307142504.56324@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> > I've looked at several bootloaders: BootEasy, BS-OS, and (a little at) > > GRUB. It seems they all need a SCSI bios to find the scsi disk. > > Sure, and btw., it's not only the boot selector. The FreeBSD bootblocks > itself also rely on the BIOS accessibility of the disk. So there's > really no chance to load a kernel off a SCSI disk where the host > adaptor has no BIOS. Um, the SCSI host adapter BIOS *or* the BIOS on the motherboard needs to know about SCSI disks. Otherwise it wouldn't be possible to boot from NCR 810 based host adapters (the 810 has no BIOS itself). Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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