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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!caen!news.tc.cornell.edu!travelers.mail.cornell.edu!newstand.syr.edu!mailbox.syr.edu!smcarey From: smcarey@mailbox.syr.edu (Shawn Carey) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Booting from SCSI drive Date: 26 Oct 1994 15:23:16 GMT Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Lines: 16 Message-ID: <38ls94$mqu@newstand.syr.edu> References: <38k43j$flm@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <38klhn$331@Mars.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sudial-155.syr.edu In article <38klhn$331@Mars.mcs.com> chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton) writes: >If you have 2 ide drive's you cannot boot from the SCSI. The boot >programs use the BIOS to read the disk and the BIOS only handles 2 >drives; period. The BIOS cannot read from the SCSI drive so you have >no choice but to use some of one of the IDE drives to boot from or to >make a boot floppy. > Or you can tell your BIOS that there aren't any IDE drives installed. This way, the SCSI controller gets first pick at drive assignments, and FreeBSD gets info about the IDE drives from the disklabel. I'm not sure if DOS will be happy about this, though. -Shawn Carey