On Sunday, July 27, 2003, at 01:48 PM, Sean Davis wrote:
> I have considered other boot options, but the best one I've been able 
> to
> come up with is klunky:
>
> burn a bootloader/kernel onto a cd, leave the scsi cd-rom on one of the
> qla1020s, and have it know that root is on a drive connected to ahc0 
> (this
> will only give me ultra/wide, not ultra2, but its better than 
> fast/wide)

   I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit this, but I'm using a similar 
scheme on a PC164-based machine.  I load my kernel from a cheapie IDE 
disk, and it mounts its filesystems (even /) and swap space from a big, 
fast SCSI disk connected to a QLA-1080.

   This scheme works fine.

        -Dave

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Dave McGuire                 "You don't have Vaseline in Canada?"
St. Petersburg, FL                     -Bill Bradford