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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting scsi disks in 2 IDE disk systems Date: 10 Sep 1996 11:55:40 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <513hfc$bu@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <32345013.167EB0E7@rwwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Robert Withrow (witr@rwwa.com) wrote: : I scanned the Handbook, the Faq, and the mailing list archives, : but I didn't find anything that looked like a ``definitive'' : or ``suppported'' method, for 2.1.5. There were a lot : of opinions in the mailing lists.... ;-) : What is the correct way of booting some scsi disk in a : system that already has 2 IDE disks configured. : 1) Manually, and : 2) Automatically In both cases, you've got to have both a boot manager and a BIOS that sees the scsi disk. A modern SCSI controller will allow this (2940 anyway) and I believe OS-BS will do the boot bit (I havn't tried this myself). OS-BS comes on the FreeBSD cd (in the tools directory) and allows you to set up a menu that times out and boots a given OS. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....