Re: Chainload to Windows on IDE from SCSI?

[Jago Pearce]

Idea! What if I just tell grub to exit? That way the BIOs will go to
the next device in the boot list, surely?

On 5/8/06, adrian15 <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jago Pearce wrote:
> > Thanks for your help.
> > I guess it's looking like my BIOs doesn't provide the support grubs
> > needs to do the job.
> >
> > The BIOs doesn't have a boot menu so I have to go into BIOs and edit
> > boot options on each change of O/S.
> >
> > There's got to be a way round this. Is there a lateral kludge around
> > this? Can smartbootmanager, lilo, or Windows boot sector help? Can I
> > somehow chainload around the problem? Can I use O/S support to boot the
> > other drive rather than relying on BIOs support?
>
> Maybe with Knoppix. You know you could load kernel from the IDE disk and
> then it will search for the big KNOPPIX file into every device including
> the SCSI disk.
>
> Maybe with an standard kernel and specifying a correct root=.
> Kernel and initrd are in the boot drive (Let's say IDE)
> And the root= parametre of the kernel points to /dev/sda1 (SCSI disk) to
> be the root partition.
>
> I would check also syslinux. I've heard that it can boot usb devices
> even when the pc cannot boot them directly so it may boot scsi devices also.
>
> adrian15