by I have a rather stupid question, but I have not been able to find an
answer in the "HOW TO"'s. I have Linux running rather happily on a 67 Mb
MFM drive on a 386DX40, and a recently added 300 Mb Seagate SCSI drive
with an Always IN2000 controller that Linux is quite happy with (and I
even moved my swap partition to it because it is so much faster).
However, I would like to boot from the SCSI drive and dispense with the
MFM drive altogether. After copying everything over and marking the
partition as bootable, I thought that I would at least get some error
messages. Well, a large "ROM BASIC NOT INSTALLED" message was what I got
after removing the MFM drive from the CMOS and attempting to boot with the
SCSI drive. (The Always controller will only boot from the SCSI drive if
no IDE/MFM disks are found.) That's not all that much help in figuring
out what I did wrong, and it is the same message I got when trying to boot
DOS from the drive when setting it up initially.
Could someone tell me what I am missing? Thank you,
Eugene Kuznetsov