Hi Wayne,
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 00:18, Wayne Johnson wrote:
> At 04:07 PM 3/27/2006, Gaffer typed:
> >Am I misunderstanding here !
>
> Maybe I am ?
>
> >If you set the SCSI to be the boot device, it is able to overide the
> >mainboard bios settings because its bios is read first !!
>
> Even if I do NOT set the SCSI card as bootable in the mombo bios, I
> still boot to SCSI if it's bios & drive are set as bootable.
>
> >FWIW. I have a Gigabyte mainboard with an Award bios ! It too will
> > let me change the order of boot ! But only if I turn off SCSI card
> > boot capability. When I do this I can choose which type of device
> > I want to boot with first.
>
> For me it doesn't matter which drive is set to boot first if the SCSI
> card is set as bootable & there is a bootable drive attached that's
> what is going to boot. In a way this is kind of neat because I
> actually have several Active Primary Partitions. If I want to boot to
> IDE I don't bother with the system's bios I just turn off the SCSI
> bootable option via Ctrl A & the system then boots the IDE drive
> instead of the Seagate Cheetah. This has been true with this Adaptec
> 2940U2W on an Abit, Asus & 2 Gigabyte system boards.
>
>
> ----------+----------
> Wayne D. Johnson
> Ashland, OH, USA 44805
> <http://www.wavijo.com>
This is how it behaves for me ! In my case I can boot to the SCSI CD
rom by using the Ctrl-B or turn off SCSI boot and then boot from my IDE
CD/DVD Rom ! I don't have any IDE Hard disks !
Methinks we are chasing our own tails ;-)
--
Best Regards:
Derrick.
Pontefract Linux Users Group.
plug at play-net.co.uk
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