Subject: Re: booting from sd0 instead of wd0?
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: Eric Volpe <epv@panix.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/29/1997 17:38:09
With my setup the only way I've found is to tell the bios that there are
no IDE drives. Then it automatically defaults to SCSI. It doesn't harm
anythin to do this because netbsd probes for IDE drives and controllers
itself, rather than listening to the bios, so it will still find them. 

> 
> Finally installed a usable SCSI disk.. how do I make the system boot off
> sd0a instead of wd0a if both disks have valid bootblocks?  I have an NCR
> SCSI card which is supported by BIOS.
> 
> Is it better to have /, /usr and swap on the same, fast SCSI disk or
> should I put some of those on the IDE disk?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   -jm
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