Ed Durrant wrote:
> 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 



>>
>> 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.

When I woke up this morning I thought the same thing, so to test it I 
booted the machine with no changes.  The intent was to see it fail to 
boot and then disconnect the scsi and watch it boot.  Guess what, it 
booted fine the first time and ecs continued the install and has 
rebooted twice now and just finished the install procedure.  Again I 
have no idea why it is acting this way.

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

I don't know if I can do that directly, but I can change the boot order 
on a device basis.  I can have the CD which is ide boot before the the 
HD which is now sata, maybe that is what you meant.  I just checked and 
the sequence is now HD --> CD --> Floppy.

Another thing I just realized is when it failed to boot I would 
immediately see a message saying boot from atapi cdrom and if there was 
a bootable cd in it it would boot but if not I would see a bootdisk 
failure message.  Now that it is booting I first see the adaptec scsi 
screen info and then the sata info like I did before these problems.

I failed to mention what type of machine it is.  I am using an IBM 
Intellistaion with 2 Xeon processers.  Maybe I am seeing the start of 
hardware problems?

Thanks,  Jim


 
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