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From: Karl Strickland <karl>
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Subject: Dell DIMENSION XPS 90/AHA-1510A - help
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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 13:27:41 -0700 (PDT)
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I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 on the above box.

The box has one IDE disk containing win95, and one scsi disk for
FreeBSD.   Installation proceeded OK (I take it AHA-1510A is supported
even though I dont see it listed on the CDROM cover?), but it will not
boot from the SCSI disk.  I have installed Booteasy but it never lists
the 2nd (scsi!) disk on bootup.

I have tried booting from the floppy, and then entering sd(0,a)/kernel
but it complains about the disk label.

I think the problem is that tha AHA-1510A does not support booting from its
devices.  Can anyone confirm this?

If this is the case, I guess I can do something ilke:

1. Use fips to shrink the win95 partition ( does fips work OK with
    win95?)

2. Stick the FreeBSD root partition on the IDE disk after win95.

This should work, right?

Cheers,
Karl