From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 14 14:18:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA23548 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 14:18:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bdd.net (bdd.net [207.61.119.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA23527 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 14:18:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by bdd.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA29039; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 17:17:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 17:17:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Stein To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Help : kernel thinks it's on sd1, when actually sd0? In-Reply-To: <199607141157.NAA21855@allegro.lemis.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- mat. +-Matthew Stein-------------------------------------------- matt@bdd.net-+ | Network Design phone: +1 519 823-8577 | | ButtonDown Digital fax: +1 519 823-9556 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+