Dave Burgess writes:
> The motherboard for our little experiment INSISTS on IDing the IDE drive
> and then tries to boot from it.  Since the sd0 is no longer the primary,
> the old boot code remained unfound.

I am told (but have not checked) that the canonical way to deal with
this is to disable the controller in the BIOS but leave it in the
kernel -- that way the kernel will boot of off sd, but it will probe
wd successfully...

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