Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 11:56:42 +1100 (EDT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot manager w/ freebsd Message-ID: <199803020056.QAA07761@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199803012253.OAA10127@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Mar 1, 98 02:53:00 pm
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In some mail from Mike Smith, sie said: > > > > 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, ...). > > Uh, actually I think the problem is the Booteasy only checks the LSB of > the drive count value. If it's set, there's one drive, if it's clear, > there are two. It's been a long time since I looked at the code, but I > do seem to recall that with 4 drives you get two items on the menu > again. > > Either way, the booteasy code design is such that it's really only > suited for simple arrangements. For more complex systems, I have to > recommend either the OS/2 Boot Manager (if you have OS/2) or System > Commander. If you insist on freeware, then OS-BS may also do what you > want. In my experience, OS-BS doesn't work as well as Booteasy. Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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