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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:5467 comp.os.linux.help:3854 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.help Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!bradford.ac.uk!t.d.g.sandford From: t.d.g.sandford@bradford.ac.uk (Thomas Sandford) Subject: Re: Can I boot from an AHA1542C with an IDE on board? Message-ID: <1993Sep29.093459.9755@info.brad.ac.uk> Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.help X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9] References: <CE2MtK.HFu@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 09:34:59 BST Lines: 15 Warren Stevens (wgsteven@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote: : 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 mean "can I set up to boot off my magneto-optical (or other SCSI) drive" the answer is - set the disk type for your IDE drive(s) to 0 using your CMOS setup program. The BIOS will then ignore them when it is looking for a boot device, and will pick up your first SCSI drive as configured by the Adaptec. This works well (I've been doing this to select OS's for 6 months now). -- Thomas Sandford | t.d.g.sandford@bradford.ac.uk