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Date:      Tue, 16 Jul 1996 11:22:23 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
To:        matt@bdd.net (Matthew Stein)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions)
Subject:   Re: Help : kernel thinks it's on sd1, when actually sd0?
Message-ID:  <199607160922.LAA17030@allegro.lemis.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960714171549.29027A-100000@bdd.net> from "Matthew Stein" at Jul 14, 96 05:17:52 pm

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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



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