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Date:      Fri, 4 Oct 1996 19:55:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        -Vince- <vince@earth.gaianet.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BootEasy
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961004195432.1279C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961003215723.2597J-100000@earth.gaianet.net>

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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.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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