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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd From: Andrew.Grillet@purplet.demon.co.uk (Andrew Grillet) Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!pipex!demon!purplet!Andrew.Grillet Subject: Re: [announcement] 386bsd Organization: FidoNet node 2:252/305 - The Purple Tentacle, Reading Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1994 18:15:00 +0000 Message-ID: <655.2DFB9BB1@purplet.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk Lines: 46 -=> On 05-09-94 23:06, Torbj|rn Lindgren posted to All <=- TL> From: tl@cd.chalmers.se (Torbj|rn Lindgren) TL> Date: 9 May 1994 01:34:14 GMT TL> Organization: Chalmers Computer Society TL> Message-ID: <2qk3um$oor@nyheter.chalmers.se> TL> Newsgroups: TL> comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.minix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clon TL> e.32bit,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc TL> In article <CpHLJE.J5w@calcite.rhyolite.com>, TL> Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com> wrote: >In article <2qht16$msc@news.u.washington.edu> tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim TL> Smith) writes: >directly from CDROM using Adaptec 1540's. > >That is between "impossible" and "impractical" on purely practical >grounds. Everyone agrees it would require you to make your CDROM drive >be target 0, TL> No, some adapters can boot from other scsi ID's. I think that the TL> Adaptec 1540C (and newer, ie CF) DOES have this capability. You should TL> be able to enter the SCSI-BIOS setup (Ctrl-A under the boot?) and TL> change the id to boot from. TL> I don't know if this BIOS does allow you to boot from CD-ROMs, but I TL> wouldn't be particularly surprised since the BIOS is really new... I have a 1542 CF that is only a couple of months old, and this boots from the first hard disk, starting the scan from 0. I discovered Because the disk at ID0 flaked and I removed it. It booted from ID1 with no change to anything - but its Not a CD, and I cant choose which device to boot from either by prompt or by setup - which ie what we want. Ideally, it would be nice to choose the partition too! Eventually I had to reset the id to 0, cause lots of other software barfed supposing that the boot drive was 0 and bypassing the bios. My 1542C which is over 6 month old DOES NOT DO THIS. So perhaps I need a bios upgrade. .. Backup the hard disk? There's no gear stick!