From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 03:08:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA04814 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 03:08:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA04805 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 03:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from allegro.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0ug6xW-000QgHC; Tue, 16 Jul 96 12:02 MET DST From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA17030; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 11:22:23 +0200 Message-Id: <199607160922.LAA17030@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Help : kernel thinks it's on sd1, when actually sd0? To: matt@bdd.net (Matthew Stein) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 11:22:23 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) In-Reply-To: from "Matthew Stein" at Jul 14, 96 05:17:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Matthew Stein writes: > > On Sun, 14 Jul 1996, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> I'm jumping into this thread rather late, and I can't remember: do you >> also have an IDE controller? I frequently use a trick that isn't very > > Yes, I've also got an IDE controller. > >> well known or appreciated: if you disable the IDE disks in the BIOS >> setup menu, you can boot from sd0 as DOS drive C: -- that's obvious. > > This is something that I considered, but renabling the IDE drive anytime I > want to boot DOS is a little out of the way compared to using Booteasy. Sure, I wasn't suggesting it as a solution, but it might help us figure out what's going on here. Greg