From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 13 23:29:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA03064 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 23:29:43 -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 XAA03058 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 23:29:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id PAA08552; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:59:24 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707140629.PAA08552@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: What I consider and odd install In-Reply-To: from Tom Samplonius at "Jul 13, 97 11:20:17 pm" To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:59:23 +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: > > How about enabling BIOS support for more drives? Boot easy should see > the other drives, if the bios does, unless there is a design limitation in > boot easy. Booteasy, especially 1.7, is very old. It dates from the days when most biossen only supported two drives (as previously mentioned). There is no correct way of discovering whether the BIOS supports more drives. You're invited to find the booteasy source code and improve on it. 8) -- ]] 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 [[