Jim Byrnes wrote:
> My small SCSI boot drive crashed leaving me unable to boot.  My data 
> drive was a large SATA drive so I decided to boot from it.  The plan was 
> to duplicate the SCSI + SATA partition setup on the SATA drive and then 
> install ecs1.2 on D: (my old maint partition), reinstall Backagain/2 
> then restore the other partitions from tape. At this point I had 
> Bootmanager installed, C: as primary + bootable, D: as logical + 
> bootable and E:, F: & G: not bootable + logical.
>
> I was able to install ecs on D: and then reboot and install Backagian/2 
> on E:.  When I ran BA/2 I got a message that there was no tape drive 
> present.  I opened the case and saw that I must have bumped the scsi 
> cable as it was not attached to the tape drive.  I shutdown and plugged 
> the tape drive back in but when I tried to reboot I got a message that 
> there was no boot drive.
>
> Using the ecs cd and booting to the management counsule showed me the 
> drive and all the partitions that I had put on it was where still there. 
> I tried to reinstall esc to D: but when it rebooted I did not get the 
> "boot from harddrive" option instead I got the menu you see
when booting 
> from the install cd.  Nothing I did would make it boot.  I even deleted 
> all the volumes I created and let the installer make a 2 GB C: formatted 
> hpfs but it still would not boot.
>
> I was at first able to boot from it a couple of times but now I cannot. 
>   Does anyone have any idea why?
>
> Thanks,  Jim
>
>   
I think you've already told us why .... It booted before you reconnected 
the SCSI device - the bios is seeing the SCSI device first saying it is 
not a bootable harddisk - which a tape drive is not ! and then doesn't 
go further.

If possible in your bios, change the boot order to have IDE before SCSI 
(or take SCSI out of the boot order).

Cheers/2

Ed.



 
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