From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 15 15:33:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA28585 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 15:33:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cais.cais.com (root@cais.com [199.0.216.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA28572 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 15:32:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [205.252.122.1]) by cais.cais.com (8.8.5/CJKv1.99-CAIS) with SMTP id SAA10745; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 18:32:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [205.252.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA12305; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 18:32:41 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 18:32:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@Journey2.mat.net To: Al Johnson cc: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: What I consider and odd install In-Reply-To: <01BC9141.56250620.Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Al Johnson wrote: > I've got the boot manager installed on the jaz drive but for some reason, > apparently booteasy only supports 2 drives, I never get the chance to select > the jaz for booting. I think this is a case where two many drives is > complicating the issue. > > I've even gone so far as to disable the primary EIDE interface (3.8G). Booteasy > still discovers the disk. I select Disk2 and it wants to boot > from the CDROM. still no jaz drive in the picture. Looks like I may have > to partition my 3.8G disk to boot FreeBSD. Hmm, maybe just go out and buy > another EIDE drive for the primary controller and all will be well. As others have told you, bteasy only handles 2 disks. I think which two disks, in a SCSI system, is handled in order of scsi ID #, and I've juggled disks to do that in the past, but you not only have a mixed system (with both SCSI and EIDE) but you have a large load of scsi devices, and juggling ID numbers is going to involve your having to do things like inspect your /etc/fstab, to make sure it's right, else it won't find the new disks in the right place (when you change the scsi order). I don't know of a boot manager that will handle your setup easily. > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------