SCSI/IDE boot priority

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2005-01-17 01:58am

My server has decided to be gay about me adding an IDE drive to the IDE RAID card. If its connected, it always becomes HDD0, and causes boot failure. I've tried both channels, master, slave and cable select. I've tried using the SCSI BIOS to force a boot on SCSI ID1, but it still gives priority to the IDE stuff running through a PCI card. Any idea about obvious mistakes I might be making? Even better, a simple way to give SCSI higher priority? Oddly, the SCSI is onboard and the IDE is a card, but the IDE RAID BIOS initialises first, which might be causing the problem.

jcow79 · Post by **jcow79** » 2005-01-17 11:35am

Play with the boot order option in the system bios. Some will let you specify which HDD you want to boot from..or just disable booting from HDD all together. I'm not 100% if this will work or not but it's where'd I'd start.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2005-01-17 08:03pm

Its a GRUB problem I think; the way it prints 'GRUB' on the screen a thousand times is a bit of a giveaway.

I tried changing the BIOS boot order to SCSI first, but that didn't make any difference. I think I need to learn more about Master Boot Records and bootloaders.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2005-01-18 01:51am

So I had to manually configure GRUB. Yay, what fun; it takes 5 minutes, if anyone bothers to tell you how. Documentation? Whats that?