From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 21:19:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA03680 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 21:19:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA03675 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 21:19:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.gaianet.net (earth.gaianet.net [206.171.98.28]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id VAA09455 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 21:19:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by earth.gaianet.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA12866; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 14:56:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 14:56:18 -0700 (PDT) From: -Vince- To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu 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 Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, -Vince- wrote: > > > 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. Shouldn't the second HD be able to boot if the BIOS of the motherboard supports both primary and secondary interfaces? Vince GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking Admin