[1160] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: SCSI and IDE cohabitating???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Fletcher)
Sun Dec 22 15:24:02 1996
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 12:14:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Ed Fletcher <efletch@ampsc.com>
Reply-To: Ed Fletcher <ug853@freenet.victoria.bc.ca>
To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
cc: Steven Cherry <stevenc@future.dsc.dalsys.com>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961222055627.356F-100000@ppp12.csudh.EDU>
On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Trevor Johnson wrote:
> > would like this situation to continue. What do I need to do when I
> > install the IDE hard drive to make sure that the IDE drive does not
> > take over primary boot responsibility. Is this possible? Or will I
>
> If your system has dual IDE interfaces (or a card which can be configured
> as ide1 rather than ide0), using the secondary one, and leaving the
> primary unused may do the trick. I don't believe it's usual for the
> system BIOS to try to boot off /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd.
Configure your kernel for ide and scsi. Leave the ide out of the system
bios. This will boot from the scsi device. When the kernel loads, it
will find the ide drive. You can mount it as part of your filesystem or
use it as swap. Whatever you wish. As long as you do not put it in the
system bios, the machine will boot from scsi.
However, if you do wish to put it in the bios (to use a bootable dos
partition on that drive), just load lilo onto the ide boot sector
(see /etc/lilo.config) and point it to your scsi drive.
Cheers,
Ed
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Ed Fletcher
ug853@freenet.victoria.bc.ca
