New SCSI Drives, won't boot.

[kirkles0206]

I have a dell poweredge 1400SC server on W2K server [not ADV. ver.] running SP4.
Server specs:

P3-1Ghz, 512MB Ram.

Here's the deal.

Upgrade SCSI drives to Seagate 320s [36GB]. Mirrored old C: into D: [New SCSI 1]. Went ok.

Shutdown server, removed old C:, jumpered New SCSI as Device 0[zero] added another identical Seagate drive [New SCSI 2] jumpered that as Device 1.

Problem:

Won't boot. SCSI utilities detects all drives, but doesn't get past that.

Possible solution:

The arc path to the old SCSI drive acting as the primary is as follows:

[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Server" /fastdetect


Notice the Partition is Set to 2[two]. The old scsi drive had another partition on it [EISA] worth about 36 MB. Dell was using this partition, I believe.

I want to change this setting to 1, I'm thinking that the boot loader is looking to a partition that doesn't exist on the new SCSI drive, in this case partition 2.

PLEASE HELP.

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