Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:58:48 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Walton <dwalton@psiint.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: wes@intele.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting off SCSI disks when two IDE disks also installed. Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.960325085457.52196D-100000@vv.psiint.com> In-Reply-To: <199603240855.TAA24127@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Sun, 24 Mar 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > wes@intele.net stands accused of saying: > > > > I've recently added an Adaptec SCSI controller to my system, which > > already has two IDE drives. I would like to boot FreeBSD from the > > SCSI disk, but this doesn't seem to be working. I'm certain I have > > That's because it's impossible. You can only boot from the first two > disks in your system. This is basically a BIOS limitation. That's not strictly true. I have an Adaptec 2842 running sd0, sd1, and sd2. I boot DOS from sd0 and FreeBSD from sd2 using OSBS-Beta. I don't have IDE, so I don't know how that complicates the situation, though. > > I've also tried both booteasy and OS-BS. Any help? Try OSBS-Beta. Dave ========================================================================== David Walton Unix Programmer PSI INTERNATIONAL, Inc. email: dwalton@psiint.com 190 South Orchard #C200 Fax :(707)451-6484 Vacaville, CA 95688 Phone:(707)451-3503 ==========================================================================
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