Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 11:46:39 -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.3.94.961008114615.2048D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961007003933.7199A-100000@earth.gaianet.net>
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On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, -Vince- wrote: > > I don't know about System Commander, having no practical experience. But > > the disappearance of wd1 is odd. I guess the ASUS is reassigning the > > 'second disk' designation (0x81) to wd2 and since there are no bootable > > disks at that location BootEasy doesn't show a f5 prompt. > > 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. 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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