Re: SATA/PATA boot order

2008-07-28 Thread Steve Shockley
Chris Bennett wrote: This is so simple if you know the answer, and very hard otherwise. /etc/fstab will refuse to work unless the wd0 and etc are correct. Thanks for the reply. So, the only way to get it to work is to tell OpenBSD it's booting from wd1? Inconvenient, but workable.

SATA/PATA boot order

2008-07-27 Thread Steve Shockley
I'm trying to set up a Dell SC420 with 4.3. The machine has two SATA hard drives and a PATA DVD drive. All that works fine. Now I'm trying to add a PATA drive to copy data. When I either install the PATA drive on the on-board controller or on a PCI PATA controller, the machine boots from

Re: SATA/PATA boot order

2008-07-27 Thread Chris Bennett
This is so simple if you know the answer, and very hard otherwise. /etc/fstab will refuse to work unless the wd0 and etc are correct. But after making a change in drives, whichever one is wd0 or wd1 will change and booting fails. This is easy to fix if you use vi or another editor. But you