[NTLUG:Discuss] No SCSI Boot Device Found - BIOS not installed

[James Rice]

This is normal.  When the bios of the SCSI host card doesn't see a 
bootable hard drive, it doesn't load the bios extension into memory and 
gives you the message.  The machine's bios should go ahead and boot 
normally from your IDE bus at that time.  As far as halting on that 
"error", check your bios settings.  I believe you will find a halt on 
error setting.  Yours is probably set to halt on all errors.  This 
setting is usually adjustable to allow operation with errors such as 
headless for a server appliance, firewall, etc where there might not be 
even a video card or keyboard attached.

Fred James wrote:

> Boot order is CD-ROM, floppy, Hard drive.
> The CD-ROM is IDE, but of course the OS also sees it as SCSI - but the 
> OS hasn't loaded yet when the error comes up.
> The only true SCSI devices are the tape drive and auto-loader of an 
> Overland LoaderXpress DLT tape library.
> If it is "normal" - I'll just live with it.
>
> Kevin E. Ivey wrote:
>
>> Fred James wrote:
>>
>>> The startup messages on this machine seem normal until right after 
>>> it list the SCSI tape and library devices, then it prints the 
>>> following:
>>>
>>> No SCSI Boot Device Found
>>> BIOS not installed!
>>
>>
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> Believe it or not, that is normal.  My AMD-chip based DC-390 SCSI 
>> host says the exact same thing every time my personal machine boots.
>>
>> It merely means that there is no bootable SCSI HDD on the cable.
>>
>> You didn't mention if the CDROM is the only thing connected to your 
>> SCSI adapter- this sounds like that is the case.
>>
>> Don't worry about it.  I've been seeing that message for over three 
>> years!
>>
>> keVIn
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