Subject: Re: Booting problems
To: None <thieleke@lust.isca.uiowa.edu>
From: Jason Downs <downsj@teeny.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/07/1996 16:27:12
In message <3167FB85.68AC@lust.isca.uiowa.edu>,
Jeff Thieleke writes:
>So what am I to do? I am looking into what my BIOS options are, but I would b
>e
>happy with simply using boot.com. Is there a way to force/choose the root
>partition, so once NetBSD boots, it will use sd1a instead of wd1a? With the
>Amiga 'loadbsd' command, there is a flag that will allow you to specify the
>root partition.
You can get a different NCR card, with on board BIOS. Or, get one of the
ISA NCR BIOS cards. Or, trash windows and boot off your IDE disk.
I boot off of IDE; a BIOS-less NCR card works fine in normal operations.
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