Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:03:20 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Cillian Sharkey <cillian@baker.ie> Cc: eT <eT@post.com>, Hackers FreeBSD <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: changing root device to ... Message-ID: <19990812150320.01895@hydrogen.fircrest.net> In-Reply-To: <37B284E5.AAC0DFD1@baker.ie>; from Cillian Sharkey on Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 09:25:09AM %2B0100 References: <37B1A8C0.26BD96CA@baker.ie> <37B26058.9B6A396F@post.com> <37B284E5.AAC0DFD1@baker.ie>
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Cillian Sharkey scribbled this message on Aug 12: > > > is the system still booting off the IDE disk (if present) ? > > > > Yes. But not from the SCSI > > You can try setting the BIOS to boot from the SCSI disk which should > do the trick..unless you have a crappy BIOS that doesn't let you do > that.. :( another trick is to not include your IDE disks in the bios config... FreeBSD will still probe and detect ide disks even when the bios doesn't know about them, unlike floppy drives... I used to boot off a scsi drive w/ an idea drive when my bios didn't have more than a A, C, CDROM options for boot... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 541 684 8449 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 "The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it. The event is only the actualizing of its thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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