On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 16:41, Erylon Hines wrote: > You shouldn't need to make any changes in the SCSI bios. All changes should > be made in the system bios--I've done a lot of SCSI installations, and I've > never reset the SCSI bios. The first thing I would try is turning off
Well, that is not true for Buslogic (nee Mylex) controllers, at least the one I have (BT-948C.) There is a setting in there for "bootable CD-ROM", and it must be enabled in order to boot from a CD **if the CD-ROM is SCSI**. Obviously, if the CD-ROM is IDE, this won't matter. In my case, I have a SCSI CD-ROM. The reason is that if the CD-ROM is SCSI attached, the motherboard doesn't know about it, only the SCSI controller does. > booting from SCSI and Harddisk in my system bios, choosing CDROM, Floppy, > Zip, or whatever. Then try it again. If that works, don't forget to turn it > on again at first boot, after install. If that doesn't work, I would make a > boot floppy and try starting the install that way. Last, there is always the > hard disk install (I have had to do that once, but the system was ide, not > scsi). > > On Friday 25 July 2003 11:54 am, Miark wrote: > > I have 8.2 on my gateway/firewall machine. I'd like 9.1 on > > there, but the damn thing won't boot to the CD. If I go > > into the SCSI bios and monkey with it that the drive is > > basically hidden, I can boot to CD; but because the hard > > drive is hidden, I can't install! > > > > The comp's bios is set to boot from CD first, but the > > SCSI always takes over. How do I exit this loop? > > > > Miark > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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