From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 11:47:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA14679 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 11:47:04 -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 LAA14673 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 11:47:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA02101; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 11:46:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 11:46:39 -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 Mon, 7 Oct 1996, -Vince- wrote: > > 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. > > 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? They don't -- the BIOS doesn't support it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major