From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 1 21:06:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA28747 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 21:06:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA28740; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 21:06:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ginger.eng.umd.edu (ginger.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.204]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA25981; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 00:06:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by ginger.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA31560; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 00:06:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 00:06:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@ginger.eng.umd.edu To: Gary Palmer cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting up In-Reply-To: <4651.833687243@palmer.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > 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. Then maybe I should move the dos disk to scsi id 2, and the second FreeBSD disk to 4? reminding, sd0=1, sd1=2, sd2=4 right now. sd2 is dos. > > Gary > -- > Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member > FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------