paul.. thanks for the response.... you are right... in the bios.. i've already set the "order" for booting the system. as stated, without the ide, everything boots from the scsi ok. the order is: a: cdrom scsi ide etc.... however, when i add the ide... reboot... the system goes to hell!! a number of "failures" occur during the startup process..... i've tried setting the ide jumpers to slave/master/setting the system determine the setting... no luck.... so.. the bottom line is that i've spent the better part of an 8 hour day on something that i've done with Windows in 20 mins!!!! thanks.. -bruce -----Original Message----- From: psyche-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:psyche-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Paul M. Livingston Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 6:44 PM To: psyche-list@redhat.com Cc: psyche-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: SCSI vice IDE boot drive At 08:50 PM 12/28/2002, psyche-list-request@redhat.com wrote: > On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 16:42, Bruce Douglas wrote: > > > hey... > > > > > > that's exactly what i want to be able to do.... boot from a scsi.. and >have > > > a 2nd 80G ide.... > > > > > > -bruce > > > Bruce; Depending on which BIOS your MB uses, in one of the set up screens you should find a line that reads something on the order of "Boot Sequence" with one of the options being EXT (for external), in a nearby line you will find something like "EXT =" with one option being SCSI. Set that option and make sure that your SCSI drive is set up as the boot drive per your SCSI controller (normally unit 0) Mine is set up "EXT, A, CDROM" but there are a bunch of combinations that you might choose to use. Just a suggestion, you might want to have a swap partition set up on the EIDE drive and spilt paging between the 2 drives. I also normally install an emergency /boot on any additional drives as a quick and dirty way to get back on the air in case of disk failure However, I think making the BIOS changes will fix your boot sequence problem Regards Paul -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
