In message <3167FB85.68AC@lust.isca.uiowa.edu>,
	Jeff Thieleke writes:
>So what am I to do?  I am looking into what my BIOS options are, but I would b
>e
>happy with simply using boot.com.  Is there a way to force/choose the root
>partition, so once NetBSD boots, it will use sd1a instead of wd1a?  With the
>Amiga 'loadbsd' command, there is a flag that will allow you to specify the 
>root partition.

You can get a different NCR card, with on board BIOS.  Or, get one of the
ISA NCR BIOS cards.  Or, trash windows and boot off your IDE disk.

I boot off of IDE; a BIOS-less NCR card works fine in normal operations.

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