On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Ray Phillips wrote:

: 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.

Is your CD-ROM drive listed in the BIOS?  It shouldn't be--especially not if
your BIOS doesn't have an "ATAPI" or "CDROM" device type available.
Basically, pretend that there's *nothing* on the IDE busses in the BIOS
(just don't disable the controller); the CD will be picked up by the kernel.

-- 
-- Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>  *  Wasabi NetBSD:  Run with it.
-- NetBSD 1.5 now available on CD-ROM  --  http://www.wasabisystems.com/