Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 15:24:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: -Vince- <vince@earth.gaianet.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BootEasy Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961008152220.2299B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961008145457.7199C-100000@earth.gaianet.net>
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On Tue, 8 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? The SECOND HARD DRIVE in the system, yes. (I can't remember if it must be on the primary controller or not.) The THIRD DRIVE no. The BIOS contains two identifiers for boot disks: 0x80 and 0x81. These are assigned to the first two disks found (except on some scsi controllers which can control which designation is put on each disk). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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