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Date:      Sun, 6 Oct 1996 21:54:51 -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.3.94.961006215318.5379B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961004234302.5084A-100000@earth.gaianet.net>

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On Fri, 4 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.
> 
> 	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...

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.  

Odd.

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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