gabriel rosenkoetter on Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:14:04 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] device IDs on boot 

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:02:26PM -0500, Kris Reilly wrote:
> If you have both scsi and ide drives in your box, it will try to boot
> from ide 1st.  So if your OS is on the scsi drive, make sure that your
> 1st ide drive is secondary (hdb).  otherwise, it wont boot.

Huh?

You can't *have* an IDE bus with only a secondary drive. That won't
work at all.

You boot off SCSI by installing a boot loader in the right sectors
on it and telling your BIOS to boot from SCSI.

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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