convert from scsi to IDE

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> At 02:02 PM 12/1/2004, you wrote:
> >OK, but I think you are missing something in what I wrote. Once your tape
> >backup is finished shutdown and install the IDE drives. Let it continue to
> >boot your SCSI, which I presume also has the FreeBSD boot blocks
> >installed. Use sysinstall on your current system to partition, format, and
> >write boot blocks on the IDE drive(s). Mount the IDE drive(s) somewhere.
> >Then you can use dump(8) piped into restore(8) directly from HD to HD.
> 
> This is cool, but my machine NEEDS to boot off of IDE. There is no way 
> around this - even in the bios. :(
> 
> So If I install IDE+SCSI, IDE will always win the boot. Even if its blank 
> then I get MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM
> 
> and it will NOT seek other devices.

He is telling you to use your current scsi system to build the system
on the IDE and then move your stuff from it.   After that you can
boot from the IDE and ignore/remove the SCSI.

> 
> I can however boot off floppy and/or IDE CDROM at least :)

OK, do that. and then go from there.

////jerry
> 
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