From: Vincent Cunniffe (vincent at domain diva.ie)
Date: Mon 23 Sep 2002 - 16:23:02 IST
Colin Whittaker wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a del poweredge 2650 with 2 disks in it on the onboard adaptec
> controller. Everthing was fine and dandy until we pluged an external
> disk array into an adaptec PCI based cntroller.
> We do software raid across these and even have lilo's raid support
> working.
>
> Now when the kernel starts up it is seeing the array as /dev/sda and all
> hell breaks loose.
>
> Any ideas on how to make things appear in the right
1. When the BIOS boot sequence flips through the second, offboard
Adaptec controller, hit CTRL-A to get into the settings and switch
off anything with the word 'boot' in it. Hopefully that'll get rid
of it.
2. Examine the motherboard BIOS for any mention of 'boot offboard
controllers first' or similar wording, and make sure that they're
set to boot from the onboard SCSI first.
Good luck,
Vin
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