Kris Reilly on Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:41:05 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] device IDs on boot


I have 6 boxes with this configuration and each and every one of them
works just fine.
 
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 15:13, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> 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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