seymour@astech.tmc.edu (Ken Seymour) (05/29/91)
I'm having problems getting Minix 386 to come up. I purchased the Prentice Hall release (1.5.10), successfully applied the patches and compared the checksums. I made a 386 boot floppy with shoelace and it boots all the way to the point where init execs login. I see the "login:" prompt but it doesn't get any input from the keyboard. Eventually, login is suspended (pending keyboard input) and it never comes back. I'm having a hard time thinking of anything that could be wrong that wouldn't also be true of the non 386 setup. Any sugestions would be greatly appreciated. Ken Seymour seymour@astech.ast.saic.com
RLM@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Robert L Metcalf NV1A) (06/19/91)
I purchased Minix 1.5 a few weeks ago and have tried to upgrade it
to Minix-386. I have got it to the point where I can boot Minix-386
off floppy and it seems to work ok, but some of the commands don't
quite work right after recompiling them with the 32 bit compiler.
1) ps dumps core almost all the time.
2) who gives bad output. Only root should be logged on.
The last line of this output looks like the only valid one.
USER LINE TIME ACTIVE PID
root tty0 07:06:05 23:52:28 1
rlm tty0 07:16:06 23:42:27 1
rlm tty0 07:19:30 23:39:03 1
root tty0 07:21:01 23:37:32 1
root tty0 07:43:14 23:15:19 1
rlm tty0 07:56:28 23:02:06 1
root tty0 06:54:01 00:04:33 1
3) df lists my other floppy too many times:
Device Inodes Inodes Inodes Blocks Blocks Blocks Mounted on
total used free total used free
----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
/dev/at0 408 77 331 1200 384 816 (root dev)
/dev/PS1 488 139 349 1440 1412 28 /usr
/dev/PS1 488 139 349 1440 1412 28 /usr
/dev/PS1 488 139 349 1440 1412 28 /usr
/dev/PS1 488 139 349 1440 1412 28 /usr
Has anyone else had similar problems? Does anyone know how to fix this?
Are these symptoms of a more serious problem?
Thanks!
Robert
RLM@Maine.Maine.edujac@unlisys.in-berlin.de (Joerg Conradt) (06/26/91)
hello (friendly people say hello!) > > 1) ps dumps core almost all the time. > > 2) who gives bad output. Only root should be logged on. > The last line of this output looks like the only valid one. > > USER LINE TIME ACTIVE PID > root tty0 07:06:05 23:52:28 1 > rlm tty0 07:16:06 23:42:27 1 > rlm tty0 07:19:30 23:39:03 1 > root tty0 07:21:01 23:37:32 1 > root tty0 07:43:14 23:15:19 1 > rlm tty0 07:56:28 23:02:06 1 > root tty0 06:54:01 00:04:33 1 > as i don't have a 386 (sorry) i don't know, but maybe you don't have a correct /etc/psdatabase. exec ps -U once to create a new one. > 3) df lists my other floppy too many times: > > Device Inodes Inodes Inodes Blocks Blocks Blocks Mounted on > total used free total used free > ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- > /dev/at0 408 77 331 1200 384 816 (root dev) > /dev/PS1 488 139 349 1440 1412 28 /usr > /dev/PS1 488 139 349 1440 1412 28 /usr > /dev/PS1 488 139 349 1440 1412 28 /usr > /dev/PS1 488 139 349 1440 1412 28 /usr take a look to /etc/mtab, maybe /dev/PS1 is in there tooo often. > > > Has anyone else had similar problems? Does anyone know how to fix this? > Are these symptoms of a more serious problem? > > Thanks! > Robert > RLM@Maine.Maine.edu > hope this helpes joerg -- Joerg Conradt Berlin, Germany || UUCP: jac@unlisys.in-berlin.de