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Date:      Tue, 8 Oct 1996 14:56:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      -Vince- <vince@earth.gaianet.net>
To:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BootEasy
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.961008145457.7199C-100000@earth.gaianet.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961008114615.2048D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Doug White wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, -Vince- wrote:
> 
> > 	Hmmm, but could it just be booteasy not allowing more than 2
> > disks that are defined in the system?  ASUS isn't reassigning the 'second
> > disk' since it still shows up as wd1 when FreeBSD boots and the 'third
> > disk' is known as wd2.  I wonder how did other people boot FreeBSD from a
> > drive other than the first if they had more than 2 EIDE drives?
> 
> They don't -- the BIOS doesn't support it.

	Shouldn't the second HD be able to boot if the BIOS of the
motherboard supports both primary and secondary interfaces?

Vince
GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking Admin





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