Today Brian Somers wrote:

> Which causes things to merrily skip across my IDE disks 'till it
> finds the first SCSI disk, loads /boot/loader from there, finds my
> kernel and then drops into a dumb ``manual mount'' prompt that makes
> me say ``ufs:/dev/da0s1a''.
>
> What I'd *REALLY* like is some way to just say ``default to
> 3:da(0,a)/boot/loader''.
>
> Any suggestions ?

I worked around a similar situation by installing OS-BS (from
/tools on the release CDs) on the IDE and making the SCSI drive
the default to boot.  Not very elegant but it worked until I was
able to pawn the IDE drive off to a windows weenie. :)

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