Anne Bennett wrote:
> >> *Why* is this system's initial boot code apparently
> >> agreeing to boot from my IDE disk (wd0), then sneakily booting from my
> >> SCSI disk (sd0)???

The 'wd' vs. 'sd' distinction in bootloader is not really very big,
bootloader merely asks for BIOS disk number 0, 1, 2 ....  i.e. wd0
== sd0 == hd0, wd1 == sd1 == hd1 etc. Those two exist for history
reasons, and were even g/c'ed on -current (on -current, there is
just the 'hd' form).

Hope that helps,

Jaromir
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