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From: vax@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu (Vax)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Can OS-BS handle *MULTIPLE* hard disks?
Date: 18 Feb 1994 00:43:02 -0600
Organization: The University of Texas - Austin
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References: <BRIAN.94Feb11203909@sun1.claremont.com> <2jo93n$177@inews.intel.com> <UWP.94Feb15143817@vize.cs.tu-berlin.de> <2jvknt$7tf@lucy.ee.und.ac.za>
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I use a boot manager, I think it's called pboot, and it claims to support
multiple disks (I see 8 options when it boots).

However, I have a 90 MB removable, and it won't even boot MS-DOS from it.
It could be because I don't own a "boot ROM" for this disk drive... It's
an IOMEGA that a guy with a MAC sold me, and I recall seeing outrageously
priced "boot modules" or some such nonsense in a magazine somewhere :-)
If you know anything about this, please mail me...

However, if you buy Coherent, they have an EXCELLENT boot manager that
has default partitions for timeout/unattended boot.

Too bad it's such a pain in the butt to install.
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