I checked out my BIOS and found that I can't seem to set a SCSI device as the boot
device. I have boot devices set
in this order, floppy, cdrom, and then 1st IDE. I couldn't find anything about booting
SCSI disks anywhere.
Aaron
Steven Pierce wrote:
> I have this set up in my machine. I have the IDE (2) as master and slave. Then 2
>SCSI drive
> in the machine. If I loose my CMOS the bios will DEFAULT to the IDE drives. Then
>the machine will
> not boot. Now if I go into the bios and state that the SCSI drive is the boot then
>it is OK. In most current
> machines it will ALWAYS take the IDE as default. You need to tell it that SCSI is
>the boot disk.
> It is kind of pain in the back side, but it is the way it was set.
>
> Try going into the BIOS and see if you have options for it. If you need help let me
>know, I will see what
> I can do. Get me off the list.
>
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> On 12/30/2000 at 01:51 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> >On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Aaron Prohaska wrote:
> >
> >> When I boot, linux companies about the hard drive not being the right
> >> file system type like ext2. I am wondering if the its trying to boot
> >> from the master IDE device instead of from the first SCSI device like it
> >> should.
> >>
> >
> >Have you played around at all within your system's BIOS, and, if
> >so what have you tried? Did you tell the computer in the 'BIOS
> >features' section that it is not to boot from any IDE drive
> >at'tall, at'tall?
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