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Date:      Mon, 20 Apr 1998 12:34:49 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
To:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc:        jcwells@u.washington.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ide win\scsi bsd dual boot
Message-ID:  <199804201734.MAA02286@horton.iaces.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980420095322.9531E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from Doug White at "Apr 20, 98 10:00:41 am"

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In a previous message, Doug White said:
> On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote:
> 
> > I tried disabling all IDE drives in CMOS to force the scsi to boot. No
> > go.
> 
> hm...
> 
> > My CMOS is completely silent regarding anything to do with SCSI. (Award
> > BIOS v4.5)

I believe I have Award BIOS on my Gygabyte MB. You can tell it boot order, 
including SCSI before C: or A:. 


> I have an Award in my ASUS board, but ASUS adds support for their SC-200
> boards to the BIOS.
> 
> > Also, during boot the 2940UW never gives me a "Hit Ctrl-A for SCSI
> > Select" that I have read about. Does this tell me anything? 
> 
> That would be really wierd.  If you don't get that BIOS it would tend to
> indicate that the onboard BIOS on the 2940 is disabled or corrupted.

The BIOS isn't installed if the boot disk is an IDE.


> > Also, during boot one can explicitly tell BSD where to boot from. I
> > normally boot 0:wd(0,a)kernel. My new disc should boot something like
> > $NUMBER:sd(0,a)kernel. How do I find $NUMBER for a SCSI disk? 
> 
> Try omitting it for starters, then maybe try 1.  $NUMBER is a fudge factor
> for the BIOS disk numbers (ie, how to reach 0x82, 0x83, etc.)
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
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