Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 15:04:02 +0100 From: "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@fer.hr> To: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ata33 vs others? Message-ID: <00c801c2c9fa$c65b62c0$e602a8c0@shara.net> References: <20030131114149.GA75587@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <E18eYVc-0007xq-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk> <20030131114149.GA75587@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <5.1.0.14.2.20030201140556.02a7e690@helios.earthmagic.org>
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J.'LoneWolf' Mattsson <lonewolf@earthmagic.org> wrote: [ snip: adding ata100 controller ] >> This is normally the easy bit. If you don't want to boot off a drive >> connected to this controller you don't have to do anything in the BIOS. >> If you want to boot off this controller, simply change the boot >> order/device to attempt "External" or "SCSI" first. I think Abit refers >> to it as "External", but otherwise the "SCSI" option should work well >> (unless of course there's an onboard SCSI controller on the motherboard). What are my options if the BIOS is stupid/old enough not to have such a knob? I'll be facing a similar situation very soon, and I'm considering following options: a) Putting only a boot sector on a floppy (the machine will not be rebooted much) b) if that fails, is there something else to be put on a floppy? the loader? how? c) like a) or b), on a CD-R disc. -- Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they can make your life miserable by doing nothing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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