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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
cc: Al Johnson <Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: What I consider and odd install
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On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Michael Smith wrote:

> Al Johnson stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > No matter what I do I can't get the FreeBSD boot manager to give me the 
> > option of booting from the JAZ drive.  I've gone thru and made sure it's 
> > BIOS recognized.  The order displayed at boot time is: C:3.8GB EIDE D:1GB 
> > Seagate, 82h JAZ, 83h EZ135.
> 
> The bootmangler (and many BIOSsen) only supports booting from the first
> two drives.  You may have better luck installing a different boot manager.
> (eg. OS-BS)

  FreeBSD's booteasy can boot from the 2nd drive, at least on IDE systems.
I just displays something like "F5 - Disk 2", and then you press F5 to
display the boot selections for disk 2.  Very neat.

  I think the problem is with the 2940 and the Jaz.  The Jaz is a
removable disk, and I recall special options in the Adaptec bios for bios
support for various removable, and extra drive type stuff.

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Tom