From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 1 20:48:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA28263 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 20:48:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA28221; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 20:47:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id EAA04653; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 04:47:25 +0100 (BST) To: Chuck Robey cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Booting up In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 01 Jun 1996 23:25:22 EDT." Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 04:47:23 +0100 Message-ID: <4651.833687243@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chuck Robey wrote in message ID : > According to the doc from NCR, the lowest scsi id boots, but I'd hoped > that the boot sector thing (bteasy) would fix that. Bteasy is installed, > but it only allows F1 to boot (the FreeBSD first disk). My bet is this is a BIOS thing ... The BIOS specs only allows 2 drives (0x80 and 0x81) ... anything else is an extension and not generally supported by the BIOS but rather by the operating systems once they are booted. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info