cdibenedetto@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (06/27/91)
Help! I've been trying to run the pc Minix demo on my Amiga XT Bridgeboard. It begins the boot up sequence, telling me its booting Minix, then the system just hangs. Is anyone running Minix on an Amiga Bridgeboard? Has anyone got the demo to run? Thanx in advance! ---- Cesi DiBenedetto cdibenedetto@trantor.sacder.nshore.ncoast.org
arno@cbmnlu1.cbm.nl (Arno Griffioen) (06/28/91)
In article <5501.28694f03@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> cdibenedetto@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes: > > Help! I've been trying to run the pc Minix demo on my Amiga XT >Bridgeboard. It begins the boot up sequence, telling me its booting Minix, >then the system just hangs. Is anyone running Minix on an Amiga Bridgeboard? Yes, I'm using my AT-bribo with MINIX in protected mode. Works fine. I didn't test the demo disk, but remember that none of the JANUS functions will work while you're running MINIX. Only the Display, keyboard an the LPT1 emulation keep on working. I did have one strange problem... I wasn't able to boot MINIX when I was using the on-board floppy controller. When I bought my HD/FD controller (WD clone 1:1 interleave) for the AT it worked fine and I have never had any problems since. >Cesi DiBenedetto Bye Arno. -- Arno Griffioen | Commodore Nederland B.V. Unix Support Center Email: arno@cbmnlu1.cbm.nl | Tel: (+31) 020-5806748 or: arno@cbm.nl | "The light at the end of the tunnel... Is the headlamp of an oncoming train!"
s8922967@ipc04.mqcs.mq.oz.au (Murray John GILBERT) (06/29/91)
In article <5501.28694f03@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> cdibenedetto@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes: > > Help! I've been trying to run the pc Minix demo on my Amiga XT >Bridgeboard. It begins the boot up sequence, telling me its booting Minix, >then the system just hangs. Is anyone running Minix on an Amiga Bridgeboard? >Has anyone got the demo to run? > Thanx in advance! > >---- >Cesi DiBenedetto >cdibenedetto@trantor.sacder.nshore.ncoast.org Even before hearing this I doubted that minix for the IBM would work as is on a bridgeboard because minix is very closely coupled to the IBM hardware - specific chips and all. You probably would need to adjust the source in any area that MSDOS would use the BIOS routines, because minix does not use the BIOS (the BIOS is bad news for multitasking) and I assume from my limited knowledge of the BridgeBoard that the BB is quite different in that area and uses the BIOS to cover up the differences. Cya, Murray #include <std.disclaimer>