Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:28:58 +0100
From:      Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
To:        Steve Shorter <steve@nomad.lets.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cannot boot from SCSI disk
Message-ID:  <20030213142858.GL81356@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20030212145249.A429@nomad.lets.net>
References:  <20030212145249.A429@nomad.lets.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
# steve@nomad.lets.net / 2003-02-12 14:52:49 -0500:
> Howdy!
> 
> 	Some hardware will not boot FreeBSD from SCSI disks unless
> the disk is formated and labled in "dedicated mode".

    interesting. all I see is backpedalling from dangerously dedicated
    disks in /stand/sysinstall and elsewhere, and the article you linked
    below says

    "Remember, dedicated mode disks sometimes cannot be booted by the PC
    architecture."

> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formating-media/x65.html
> 
> 	In general SCSI disk that only contain FreeBSD should be
> formated/labled in "dedicated mode" IMHO.

    what source do you have this information from?

-- 
If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore
your message.    see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030213142858.GL81356>