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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