Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 23:46:54 -0700 (PDT) From: -Vince- <vince@earth.gaianet.net> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BootEasy Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961004234302.5084A-100000@earth.gaianet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961004195432.1279C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 3 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. > > The PC BIOS only supports booting from two disks. You'd have to use a > smarter boot manager (OS/2's Boot Manger may be one of these) or try to > move your data onto the third disk so the bootable parts of the systems > are viewable from the BIOS. 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... Vince GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking System Administrator
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