Re: Mixed disk drive types problem

From: Vic (vic_at_innocent.com)
Date: 10/30/03


Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:32:34 +0000 (UTC)


"N. Curt Bean" <cbean@raytheon.com> wrote in message
news:HD7ob.111$K6.112@bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com

> 1) The system want to boot the SCSI disk drive instead of the IDE disk
> /dev/hda. I must use the boot floppy to boot from the IDE disk drive.

Boot order is defined in the BIOS - this has nothing whatsoever to do
with linux...

> 2) After booting from the IDE disk drive, I cannot fdisk the SCSI disk
> drive. Says disk doesn't exist.

What *exact* command are you typing?

Vic.

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