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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!zib-berlin.de!unlisys!desert!heaven7.snafu.de!usenet From: martini@heaven7.snafu.de (Martin Ibert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: System Commander wiped out my BSD partition, HELP!! Date: 27 Jan 1996 16:35:35 +0100 Organization: The Seventh Heaven, Berlin, Germany Lines: 23 Sender: martini@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org Message-ID: <ufohrpr6pj.fsf@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org> References: <4djpkc$cn8@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <4dtb9f$lug@stealth.mindspring.com> <4e682l$ldq@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu's message of 24 Jan 1996 16:24:37 -0500 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 In article <4e682l$ldq@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken) writes: : Do any of the freely available boot-managers work on systems with >2 : disks? Of course, unless you actually want to _boot_ from the third (etc.) IMHO, you should (if possible) split your OS's over several HDDs (unless some of them have abysmal performance), and if you do, you should arrange for all boot/root partitions/slices/whatever to be on the first two. : Thus I was hoping that there might be an equivalent, freely : available product. IMHO, it can't work, because FreeBSD needs the BIOS to boot, and the BIOS cannot see the third (etc.) disk at all. -- Martin Ibert, Fürstenweg 11, D-13589 Berlin-Spandau, Germany, EU | ____ Cen ____ Fon: +49-30-3753479/Fax ...3753699/Mail martini@heaven7.snafu.de | \___/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." --- John Gilmore PGP key is available from any key server or from <http://www.snafu.de/~martini>