Lars NoodC)n wrote:
> I suppose I can make very small partitions on wd1 and wd2 and put /bsd
> there.
It turns out that the vA07 BIOS in the Dell Optiplex GX270 was trying to
boot from wd2. I've found no way to point to wd0 automatically.
Manually selecting the device during cold booting works,
Chris Kuethe wrote:
> maybe there's a knob in the bios to specify a boot device?
Yeah, but in regards to hard drives, it's not more specific than
"Hard-Disk Drive C:" and seems to give preference to the SATA drives
(wd1 and wd2) over the IDE (wd0).
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
> I assume you have
Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> with the boot ROM at wd0. Could I maintain a machine that booted
> from, say, wd3? Sure. Could I expect anyone else to? No.
You certainly have a point there. One of the boxes in my pen has
$ mount
/dev/wd2a on / type ffs (local)
/dev/wd1a on /home
Lars Noodin wrote:
> I have the main system on a smaller, pre-existing drive set up with a
> recent 4.4 i386 snapshot on a Dell Optiplex gx270. Booting is normal
> until I add two SATA drives.
>
> OpenBSD sees the drive as wd0, but fdisk sees it as /dev/rwd0c, so the
> effect is that when booting
Lars NoodC)n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have the main system on a smaller, pre-existing drive set up with a
> recent 4.4 i386 snapshot on a Dell Optiplex gx270. Booting is normal
> until I add two SATA drives.
I assume you have already fiddled with BIOS options for boot device
order? SATAs
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