From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 1 14:44:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17196 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 14:44:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17175 for ; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 14:43:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05393; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 15:43:43 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd005377; Sun Mar 1 15:43:35 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA27485; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 15:43:33 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199803012243.PAA27485@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: boot manager w/ freebsd To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:43:33 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199803011419.GAA17299@hub.freebsd.org> from "Darren Reed" at Mar 2, 98 01:19:32 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > When there are three disks on the system, you can only boot from the > first (no option to goto the second or third disk is given). > > Is this fixable ? Yes. You need to burn a new BIOS for your machine and up the drive count from 2 to however many you want so that the BIOS will put the right %dl value (ie: 0x82, 0x83, ...). The problem is that boot managers can only load code via the INT 13 read interface, and your BIOS provides limits on the interface. Some SCSI BIOSes don't have these limits, so if you are using SCSI hardware, it may not be a problem. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message