On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:15:48PM +1000, Ray Phillips wrote:
> Dear NetBSD/i386:
> 
> I've a nasty feeling that this is a FAQ but haven't been able find anything
> relevant on the Web site.
> 
> 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.
> 
> For the record, these are the first few messages written to the console:
> 
> NCR SDMS (TM) V3.0 53C8XX SCSI  BIOS, PCI Rev. 2.0
> Copyright 1993 NCR Corporation
> PCI208XX-3.00.07
> ID 00 QUANTUM LIGHTNING 540S
> ID 06 QUANTUM LIGHTNING 540S
> 
> Use hd1a:netbsd to boot sd0 when wd0 is also installed
> 
> booting wd0a:netbsd - starting in 0

This should'nt be a problem. wd0 here really means "the first BIOS disk".
If you have no IDE then the first BIOS disk should be your SCSI disk.
Sure, this should be changed to "hd0" to avoid confusion.

> netbsd: Inappropriate file type of format

It seems that either it can't load the kernel or the kernel binary was
corrupted.

What happens if you boot from floppy and tell "boot wd0a" at the boot prompt ?
You can also try to boot from floppy and try to reload/reextract the kern.tgz
set.

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