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Date:	Sun, 3 Mar 2002 13:20:53 PST7
From:	xowatson@concentric.net
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: boot scsi cd

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On 3 Mar 2002 at 12:12, Peter Skye wrote:
> 1) I've heard that you can force a motherboard to suppress its IDE boot
> if you tell it there aren't any IDE drives. ...

Seems like an easy way might be to fdisk the IDE drives to flip the
active bit off. They're still visible to the BIOS. Most boards I've
seen, the BIOS has to see the disk before the software will. If you
"tell it there aren't any IDEs" I don't think the operating system will
look for them.

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