Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 12:24:08 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Theo Bell <freebsd@cfdnet.me.tuns.ca> Cc: Joel Bjork <u98jobj@stud.hh.se>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: forcing which SCSI device to boot from Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.0.20000809122159.02c54660@marble.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008091324280.27975-100000@cfdnet.me.tuns.ca > References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000809120051.0299c4a0@marble.sentex.ca>
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At 01:25 PM 8/9/00 -0300, Theo Bell wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I think you may have to disable the one you don't want to boot from in the
>BIOS.
Hi,
Unfortunately there does not seem to be a way to do this in the 3ware
card's BIOS :-( Nor does the MB's BIOS give enough granularity to specify
which "SCSI device" to boot from.
Does anyone have a URL to instructions to create a boot floppy. I am
searching through the archives, but am having problems finding the
reference to the instructions.
---Mike
>Theo Bell
>CFDnet.com Development Team
>--------------------------------------
>
>On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
> > At 06:01 PM 8/9/00 +0200, Joel Bjork wrote:
> >
> > >On 09-Aug-00 Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have an Adaptec 2940 and a 3ware IDE raid card. I have been
> booting from
> > > > the Adaptec, but when I put the 3ware card in, the drive insists on
> booting
> > > > from the 3ware. Apart from making a boot floppy disk, is there any
> way to
> > > > force the drive to boot from the Adaptec ?
> > > >
> > > > ---Mike
> > >Sounds like a BIOS issue, check the bootorder in the Bios, defaults are
> > >ususally: floppy, IDE, SCSI
> >
> > Thanks, but I think the problem is that the BIOS sees the Adaptec and the
> > 3ware card BOTH as SCSI devices.
> >
> > ---Mike
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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