From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 25 19:02:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA03666 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 19:02:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mutsgo.kf7nn.com (mutsgo.kf7nn.com [204.251.27.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA03659 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 19:02:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vagner@vagner.com) Received: from ginger.kf7nn.com (ginger.kf7nn.com [192.168.0.4]) by mutsgo.kf7nn.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA20711 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 21:00:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from vagner@vagner.com) From: "George Vagner" To: Subject: 3 scsi drives and 1 ide Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 21:02:10 -0500 Message-ID: <01bde8f1$abfeb240$0400a8c0@ginger.kf7nn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i installed 2.2.6 on a test system that has 3 scsi drives and a ide hd and an ide cdrom. the first 2 drives are 340M quantum and i used one for / and one for /var the other drive is a seagate 1080 M scsi and i installed /usr and swap there. i am getting a bios limit error when trying to boot up off of the first 340 meg drive. i have tried unplugging the power cable of the 2 other drives to see if it can even attempt to boot but keep getting Error C:1456 > 1023 (bios limit) this is perplexing me since the first drive is only 340 Meg and well below the 528 Meg limit or whatever. I have installed osbs on the ide hd so i can boot from the different drives but it always gives me this error when i try and boot the first drive and the other drives are not bootable ( of course). i tried to send this to the list but i guess it didnt make it thru i didnt see it show up. George To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message