From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 5 00:45:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA01664 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 00:45:38 -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 AAA01659 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 00:45:36 -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 XAA01247 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 23:58:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from vince@localhost) by earth.gaianet.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) id XAA05268; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 23:46:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 23:46:54 -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 Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, -Vince- wrote: > > > I am having a problem with booteasy, somehow if I had only two > > EIDE drives connected, I would get the [F5] Disk 2 option but once I put > > in a third drive, I can't boot but the first drive, does anyone know > > what's wrong? Thanks. > > The PC BIOS only supports booting from two disks. You'd have to use a > smarter boot manager (OS/2's Boot Manger may be one of these) or try to > move your data onto the third disk so the bootable parts of the systems > are viewable from the BIOS. Actually, the problem is that if I disabled the third disk, then the system will be able to boot the second disk but if I have the third disk enabled bysetting the secondary drive 1 on my ASUS P55-TP4XE motherboard, it will only show F1 MS-DOS and F2 FreeBSD but no F5 Disk2. Do you know if the commercial program System Commander allows booting from multiple drives? and isn't there a way to make it see the second drive when the secondary controller is enabled since the Intel Triton chipset motherboards all have built in controllers for 4 HDs and CD rom's... Vince GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking System Administrator