Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 00:43:22 -0700 (PDT) From: -Vince- <vince@earth.gaianet.net> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BootEasy Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961007003933.7199A-100000@earth.gaianet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961006215318.5379B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, Doug White wrote: > > 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. Hmmm, but could it just be booteasy not allowing more than 2 disks that are defined in the system? ASUS isn't reassigning the 'second disk' since it still shows up as wd1 when FreeBSD boots and the 'third disk' is known as wd2. I wonder how did other people boot FreeBSD from a drive other than the first if they had more than 2 EIDE drives? Cheers, -Vince- vince@earth.gaianet.net - GaiaNet Corporation Unix Networking Admin
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