Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:43:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot manager w/ freebsd Message-ID: <199803012243.PAA27485@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199803011419.GAA17299@hub.freebsd.org> from "Darren Reed" at Mar 2, 98 01:19:32 am
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> 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
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