Chris Kuethe wrote:
> maybe there's a knob in the bios to specify a boot device?
Yeah, but in regards to hard drives, it's not more specific than
"Hard-Disk Drive C:" and seems to give preference to the SATA drives
(wd1 and wd2) over the IDE (wd0).
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
> I assume you have already fiddled with BIOS options for boot device
> order?
Yes. Even tried rolling back to an earlier BIOS, upgrading back to the
latest, and examining the existing BIOS config with a hexeditor. (not
that any of that was useful) Did get a refresher on FreeDOS out of all
that though.
> SATAs are generally quicker at most things than IDEs, and
> there could be settings (BIOS ones) that automagically change once you
> plug in the faster drives...
I've tried most (if not all) permutations available on the BIOS. The
thing boots fine once I unplug the new drives.
Manually booting from "Primary Master Drive" brings up the right disk
(wd0) but letting the BIOS go to "Hard-Disk Drive C:" as it wants to
fails.
I suppose I can make very small partitions on wd1 and wd2 and put /bsd
there.
-Lars
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