Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 02:30:36 -0600 From: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting from Promise tx2000 Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030224022557.025a1a00@mail.go2france.com> In-Reply-To: <200302240840.44934.will@unfoldings.net> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030223184703.03e52cc0@mail.go2france.com> <5.2.0.9.0.20030223184703.03e52cc0@mail.go2france.com>
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>If your BIOS supports this, try setting the boot device in CMOS >configuration to SCSI Boot Device. it does, and that's how we have it. > The problem is that the offboard ATA >controller you are using has its own BIOS, thus the system BIOS will not >boot a disk attatched to it. I don't think so, the system BIOS scans the i/o address space for executable segements and passes control to any that it finds, giving the disk controller card a chance to run its own code, hook interrupts, etc. > Setting SCSI boot device will mostly make your >BIOS offer to hand booting over to what ever device offers to take it. Most >(modern) ATA controllers respond to the call for a "SCSI boot device" and >take controle, then booting the system from the hard drives they own. agreed, but it's not happening. We've played a lot with the System bios settings and with the tx2000 bios setup utility, which sees the drives correctly. Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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