From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 6 21:55:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA10299 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 21:55:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA10289 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 21:54:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA05395; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 21:54:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 21:54:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: -Vince- cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BootEasy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, -Vince- wrote: > > > I am having a problem with booteasy, somehow if I had only two > > > EIDE drives connected, I would get the [F5] Disk 2 option but once I put > > > in a third drive, I can't boot but the first drive, does anyone know > > > what's wrong? Thanks. > > Actually, the problem is that if I disabled the third disk, then > the system will be able to boot the second disk but if I have the third > disk enabled bysetting the secondary drive 1 on my ASUS P55-TP4XE > motherboard, it will only show F1 MS-DOS and F2 FreeBSD but no F5 Disk2. > Do you know if the commercial program System Commander allows booting > from multiple drives? and isn't there a way to make it see the second > drive when the secondary controller is enabled since the Intel Triton > chipset motherboards all have built in controllers for 4 HDs and CD rom's... I don't know about System Commander, having no practical experience. But the disappearance of wd1 is odd. I guess the ASUS is reassigning the 'second disk' designation (0x81) to wd2 and since there are no bootable disks at that location BootEasy doesn't show a f5 prompt. Odd. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major