Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 12:06:33 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: evan@probita.com (Evan Polster) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bootmgr gives me only DOS option. Message-ID: <199507200236.MAA09705@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9507191524.AA10960@loon.probita.com> from "Evan Polster" at Jul 19, 95 09:24:17 am
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Evan Polster stands accused of saying: > My bootmgr only gives me one choice for OS's: DOS. > > I think the screen looks like: > > F1 dos > > F? > > My current configuration: > > IDE Disk 1: primary DOS (bootable). > SCSI Disk 2: extended DOS partition. > SCSI Disk 3: freeBSD partition (bootable). My guess is that your BIOS only supports two harddisks, so you're not going to be able to boot off the third disk. Swap disks 2 & 3 and see if DOS still sees the DOS SCSI disk. > Question: Is there a simple way for me to tell the bootmgr > about this second bootable drive? The bootmanager asks the BIOS, AFAIK. > Evan Polster -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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