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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!slugvine.demon.co.uk!slugvine.demon.co.uk!jas From: jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk (John Stark) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booteasy can't find my 3rd hard disk Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 18:00:06 GMT Organization: Home Message-ID: <E7M206.1L5@slugvine.demon.co.uk> References: <01bc37ab$a4c28cc0$90609f82@dorky> NNTP-Posting-Host: slugvine.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: slugvine.demon.co.uk Lines: 22 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37732 In article <01bc37ab$a4c28cc0$90609f82@dorky>, Sinky <cbap48@strath.ac.uk> wrote: >I have 3 hard disks in my system and have installed FreeBSD 2.2 on my 3rd >disk >(on the second IDE controller). >As far as I can see, Booteasy refuses to find this 3rd disk and as a result >I can't boot >FreeBSD. Can anyone confirm this ? If this is the case is there any other >Boot Managers >that can find possible 3rd or 4th hard disks on the second IDE controller ? Booteasy does only look at the first two. You could try OS-BS (on the FreeBSD CD) which I think will find as many disks as your BIOS knows about, and allow you to boot from any of them. If one of your drives has Windows NT on it then an alternative is to use the Windows NT boot manager to boot FreeBSD. To do this you need to create it a boot sector file, patched for whichever drive FreeBSD is to be booted from. Details can be found at http://www.devious.com/freebsd/. -- John Stark (at home), Cambridge, UK | mailto:jas@slugvine.demon.co.uk Tel. Cambridge (01223) 573555 | http://www.slugvine.demon.co.uk