Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 03:56:30 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: URGENT (?) booting from CD on Atapi Message-ID: <199912180856.DAA02633@rtfm.newton> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9912172232370.21341-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> from Tom at "Dec 17, 1999 10:35:01 pm"
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=> => => A machine with SCSI disks and an ATAPI CD-ROM (no IDE disks)
=> => => would not boot from 3.3 CD if the SCSI disks are online. It
=> => => would say: "Read Error" on the upper left of the screen --
=> => => where you'd normally see the spinning dash. I suspect, this is
=> => => a loader's bug :(, which may make it to 3.4 ...
=> => =
=> => = Don't see a problem with that here. I just booted the 3.3-R CD
=> => =on an ATAPI CD ROM with no other IDE devices, and everything was
=> => =fine.
[...]
=> Lucky you... Are the SCSI disks otherwise bootable? Is the CD on the
=> primary or the secondary IDE channel?
=
= The SCSI disk is bootable in that set in the BIOS to boot (I used "A:
=CD C:" boot order), but I don't think it has an OS on it.
=
= You could just have a boot order issue. Maybe the SCSI disk has a
=screwed up boot sector, and SCSI disk is earlier in the boot order ("A:
=C: CD"), so it never gets to the CD.
Nope. If I take the CD out of the drive, the machine will nicely boot
from the SCSI disk...
-mi
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