Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 00:06:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting up Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960602000459.30317A@ginger.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <4651.833687243@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote in message ID > <Pine.OSF.3.91.960601232202.25722D-100000@ginger.eng.umd.edu>: > > According to the doc from NCR, the lowest scsi id boots, but I'd hoped > > that the boot sector thing (bteasy) would fix that. Bteasy is installed, > > but it only allows F1 to boot (the FreeBSD first disk). > > My bet is this is a BIOS thing ... The BIOS specs only allows 2 drives > (0x80 and 0x81) ... anything else is an extension and not generally > supported by the BIOS but rather by the operating systems once they > are booted. Then maybe I should move the dos disk to scsi id 2, and the second FreeBSD disk to 4? reminding, sd0=1, sd1=2, sd2=4 right now. sd2 is dos. > > Gary > -- > Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member > FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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