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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!lugb!latcs1!ipc6.lat.oz.au!wongm Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Can I boot from an AHA1542C with an IDE on board? Message-ID: <CE5vz3.EHD@latcs1.lat.oz.au> From: wongm@ipc6.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 10:04:14 GMT Sender: news@latcs1.lat.oz.au (news) References: <CE2MtK.HFu@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <289vfk$ks9@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia Nntp-Posting-Host: ipc6.lat.oz.au Lines: 21 In article <289vfk$ks9@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) writes: >In article <CE2MtK.HFu@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> wgsteven@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Warren Stevens) writes: >>I have a Adaptec 1542C with a magnetic optical drive attached and my >>regular 120Meg hard drive, connected to a generic IDE controller. Is >>there some way i can boot linux/386bsd derivitive directly from the >>SCSI controller? I'd rather not reformat my IDE drive, and set up >>things that redirect the boot process to a different controller. >>Any ideas? >> > >If you are using 'new' boot blocks, then you will want to boot from What do you mean by new boot blocks ? Where can I get it ? Does it comes from FreeBSD ? How about the 386bsd to FreeBSD upgrade kit, does it contain this ? Many thanks in advance! - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C Wong) -- - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au