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From: robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au (Robert Chalmers)
Subject: Re: One IDE + One SCSI??
Organization: China House.
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 10:05:46 GMT
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Martin Welk (mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de) wrote:
: 	long@njl2. (Neil J Long) writes:
: >a small (99M) IDE drive (C:)  '/'
: >a big SCSI drive (2G) on Adaptec 1542 (d:) - split in to /usr /var and swap
: >I have been failing to get it to boot - install goes OK but can't get it
: >to boot up. 

I could be wrong, but I came across something somewhere that says that
if you have a SCSI and an IDE dirve in the same system, the SCSI will
be the default boot device. Regardless of how you fdisk it.
I run a SCO box that did the same thing. I didn't pursue the matter,
just took out the SCSI drive, so I can't say for sure.

Try making the SCSI the boot device, and the IDE slave?

bc
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