Subject: Re: NetBSD/1.5 tries to boot from wd0 instead of sd0
To: Ray Phillips <r.phillips@mailbox.uq.edu.au>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/01/2001 21:32:50
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Ray Phillips wrote:
: I've installed NetBSD/i386 1.5 onto a PC which has two SCSI hard drives but
: no IDE ones (and an IDE CD-ROM drive). (I booted from the two floppies and
: had sysinst obtain the required sets by ftp.) After the installation I
: tried to boot in single user mode and found that it tries to boot from wd0
: instead of sd0.
Is your CD-ROM drive listed in the BIOS? It shouldn't be--especially not if
your BIOS doesn't have an "ATAPI" or "CDROM" device type available.
Basically, pretend that there's *nothing* on the IDE busses in the BIOS
(just don't disable the controller); the CD will be picked up by the kernel.
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