On Monday 12 September 2005 03:12 pm, Covington, Chris wrote: > >I have a Compaq Proliant 3000, w 6 18.2 SCSI disks I am building for a > >file server for my department. I have installed an IDE HD 40gig to hold > > > >the OS so as to reserve all the SCSI space for data. Problem is after > >installing twice and messing around I find that the firmware in teh > >3000's was not designed to support IDE HD's. I can install to it, I > >assume it is that it just won't boot to it. How do I build a floppy to > >just get the boot process tarted then look to teh HD for kernel and os? > > > >Does this make any sense to anyone? > > Why don't you install the MBR on one of the SCSI disks and keep the O/S > & boot partition on the IDE drive? Guess I could, just wanted to keep the SCSI's clean for data only... What I would like is to be able to move teh MBR to a floppy? or CD??
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