vesseur@fwi.uva.nl (Joep JJ Vesseur (I88)) (05/02/91)
hello,
i consider upgrading from an STF to a Mega STe but i want to keep
on running Minix-ST. after all sorts of rumours about incompatibilities
between ST's and STe's i wonder whether someone has Minix running
on an STe or knows it does run.
thanx,
joep
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I'm not disorganized, just flexible.HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) (05/03/91)
When I tested it, MINIX booted on a MEGA STE 4 without problems, but it booted in 8MHz cache-less mode, as dhrystone figures showed. C.v.W.
micro@imada.ou.dk (Klaus Pedersen) (05/12/91)
HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) writes: >When I tested it, MINIX booted on a MEGA STE 4 without problems, but >it booted in 8MHz cache-less mode, as dhrystone figures showed. Yes, this is because that the MEGA STE allways boots in compatibility mode, it assumes that auto-booting things are games or some other picky things... You will have to write a program that flips the flag, to get full speed. -Klaus (micro@imada.ou.dk)
Christoph van Wuellen <HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu> (05/13/91)
I had no chance to fiddle around, and no doc on the STE. But a STE can boot a ST MINIX bootdisk, so there is a big chance of getting started. C.v.W.
msdloem@cs.vu.nl (Loemban tobing Msd) (05/14/91)
micro@imada.ou.dk (Klaus Pedersen) writes: >HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) writes: >>When I tested it, MINIX booted on a MEGA STE 4 without problems, but >>it booted in 8MHz cache-less mode, as dhrystone figures showed. >Yes, this is because that the MEGA STE allways boots in compatibility >mode, it assumes that auto-booting things are games or some other picky >things... >You will have to write a program that flips the flag, to get full speed. >-Klaus (micro@imada.ou.dk) There's something strange with my Mega STE4 and Minix. When I boot minix from a boot diskette, Single or Double sided, as soon as the Ram Disk is loaded, it Gives a Signal 11 at the start of INIT, and does nothing. However, this doesn't occur when I boot the same minix image using MINIX.PRG. BTW, When I use MINIX.PRG and boot minix after the desktop has come up, I get 50000 dhrystones in 44 sec. On my old ST in +/- 78 sec. When I use MINIX on my Mega STE, I can't use CTRL-ALT-DEL to reset. I have to turn off the switch, and turn it back on again. Even the Reset-button doesn't work properly. -Martin (msdloem@cs.vu.nl) -- -- Martin S.D. Loemban Tobing -- INTERNET: msdloem@cs.vu.nl --
bert@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org (Bert Laverman) (05/26/91)
msdloem@cs.vu.nl (Loemban tobing Msd) wrote: > There's something strange with my Mega STE4 and Minix. When I boot minix > from a boot diskette, Single or Double sided, as soon as the Ram Disk is > loaded, it Gives a Signal 11 at the start of INIT, and does nothing. > However, this doesn't occur when I boot the same minix image using > MINIX.PRG. BTW, When I use MINIX.PRG and boot minix after the desktop > has come up, I get 50000 dhrystones in 44 sec. On my old ST in +/- 78 sec. This looks like what Cristoph said: when booting, you get 8MHz, but in TOS the switch is made to 16MHz, so starting Minix there will give you the fast Minix. > When I use MINIX on my Mega STE, I can't use CTRL-ALT-DEL to reset. I have > to turn off the switch, and turn it back on again. Even the Reset-button > doesn't work properly. This is a bug in Minix, and occurs with 'normal' STs as well. If you use MINIX.PRG, re-booting fails. My guess is that somebody has been too cautious in re-loading vectors during Minix boot. Greetings, Bert ===================================================================== Bert Laverman email: bert@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org tel.: +31 50 - 733587 or: laverman@cs.rug.nl =====================================================================