From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 13 23:15:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA02505 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 23:15:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA02495 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 23:15:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id PAA08466; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:44:00 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707140614.PAA08466@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: What I consider and odd install In-Reply-To: from Tom Samplonius at "Jul 13, 97 10:11:57 pm" To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:44:00 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tom Samplonius 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. Note that the disk in question is the _third_ drive, ie 0x82. > I just displays something like "F5 - Disk 2", and then you press F5 to > display the boot selections for disk 2. Very neat. Yes. Unfortunately it uses the LSB of the BIOS disk count to swap between 1- and 2-disk mode. With 3 disks you can only boot from the 1st. > 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. The default 2940 configuration treats removables as fixed disks for booting only. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[