Jim Byrnes wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
That is really odd - sounds like the "gremlins" decided to move out over 
night !

>> 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.
>
>   
  Some BIOS show SCSI separate to IDE (HD) - see if you can select SCSI 
from the list - but normally HD would infer whichever harddisk the 
motherboard controls and your scsi devices are on a separate card I 
guess. I tend to set boot sequence to floppy -->  CDRom --> Harddisk.
  Someone else suggest turning off the SCSI BIOS on the card - that 
would also ensure the system didn't think the tape drive was a bootable 
drive.

Is it possible that this morning you had a tape in the tape drive - so 
that the system saw it was not a SCSI HD and then went to look for other 
devices - whereas on the times it doesn't boot you don't have a tape in 
the device so it see's an off-line device ?


> 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.
>
>   
  Well that relates to boot order.
> 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?
>
>   
  I don't think so. I think it is related to what the system thinks it 
is seeing when you boot. - i.e. a set up issue now that you have removed 
the SCSI HD.
> Thanks,  Jim
>
>
>  
>   
Cheers/2

Ed.



 
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