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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5472 comp.os.linux.help:3873 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: Can I boot from an AHA1542C with an IDE on board? Date: 29 Sep 1993 14:19:30 +0100 Organization: EUnet Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 13 Distribution: world Message-ID: <28c212$on6@Germany.EU.net> References: <CE2MtK.HFu@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net 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? Tell the 1542 to emulate the C: drive, then disable your IDE drives in your BIOS setup, and re-boot (from the first SCSI :) -Bernard