Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1377 mails)

[arunkhan@xxxxxxxx (Arun K. Khan)]

At 07:47 AM 08/29/98 -0700, Steven Udell wrote:
>
>1) LILO will boot from the IDE/mbr to a SCSI Linux native root / (problem?)
>   a) this set up has two SCSI host adapters to figure out.. (problem at
boot?)
>2) any suggestions?
>

#1 issue:  does your MB have the capability to define which device to boot
from? Some MBs do allow to boot from a SCSI device even when there is an
IDE HD and there are some that will boot only from the first IDE HD when
such a beast is present.  You will have to find this yourself by reading
the MB manual.

#2 issue: you have two SCSI HBA both with SCSI bios.  If you plan to boot
from the IDE device then turn off the bios on both HBAs.  The SCSI bios is
there for boot purpose.  Here I am assuming that your MB will insist on
booting from the IDE HD.  In case your MB does have the capability to boot
1st from a SCSI device then attach the SCSI HD you wish to make the boot
device i.e. MBR to your favorite HBA and turn off the SCSI bios on the
"other" SCSI HBA.  

One thing to keep in mind; given that you have a Windows on an IDE hard
drive I suggest you keep the IDE HD as the boot device since Windows wants
to be on the first primary partition of the first HD device.

HTH.
-- Arun Khan
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