On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, David M wrote:

> Hello folks,
> 
> I have just added a master IDE drive (primary IDE) to my linux setup.  Now
> it is trying to boot from it rather than my SCSI HDD (the one where Linux
> is).  Can I change this?  I had my drive setup as a slave b4 (without a
> master) and eventhough BIOS did not detected it, Linux did.  Anyways I
> thought that if BIOS couldn't see it I was best to change the jumpers to
> master (now it tries to boot from IDE first).

Remove the IDE from the bios, tell it there is no IDE C drive, linux
should be able to detect it's geometry on boot and configure it then.
Some newer bios's have a SCSI setting for boot order which you could also
use to boot from the SCSI disk.

Jason


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