From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jul 30 10:38:07 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA15834 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 10:38:07 -0700 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA15827 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 10:38:05 -0700 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id TAA18654 ; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 19:37:58 +0200 Received: from (roberto@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) id TAA07981 ; Sun, 30 Jul 1995 19:37:57 +0200 From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Message-Id: <199507301737.TAA07981@blaise.ibp.fr> Subject: Re: Suggestion. To: robin@rucus.ru.ac.za (Robin Lunn) Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 19:37:56 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507300943.LAA00244@rucus.ru.ac.za> from "Robin Lunn" at Jul 30, 95 11:43:45 am X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#880 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 640 Sender: bugs-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I think most of you will only be using SCSI devices and so not have come > accross this problem much. Suggestion: in the install program if the > installer tries to boot from the SCSI while IDE controller was detected, > warn them that this is impossible on the IBM PC platform. It is not that impossible with our boot blocks. You can ask to boot from hd() instead of sd()/wd(). It will then boot from the SCSI drive. The boot blocks are to be on the IDE drive of course. Broken PC arch. again... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #5: Fri Jul 14 12:28:04 MET DST 1995