Re: Chainload to Windows on IDE from SCSI?

[adrian15]

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