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Re: [Xen-users] scsi and ide on HVM

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Date:	Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:05:56 +0100
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> I just tried installing OpenBSD on an emulated scsi disk.  The
> installation worked fine, but it won't boot.  I changed it to an ide
> drive in the xm config file and now it works fine.
>
> Is this the expected behavior?  Does booting of a scsi hard drive just
> not work, or is there something special you have to do ti make scsi
> drivs bootable?

I seem to remember the SCSI drives were not bootable - presumably because the 
bochs BIOS can only boot from IDE.  If you booted from an emulated IDE drive 
but used a SCSI drive as your root FS then that would probably work - and may 
give better performance.

Cheers,
Mark

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