Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 04:47:23 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting up Message-ID: <4651.833687243@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Jun 1996 23:25:22 EDT." <Pine.OSF.3.91.960601232202.25722D-100000@ginger.eng.umd.edu>
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Chuck Robey wrote in message ID <Pine.OSF.3.91.960601232202.25722D-100000@ginger.eng.umd.edu>: > 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
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