ona@polari.UUCP (Norman Hamer) (05/15/91)
Help! I just got PC minix v1.5 and am failing to get it to boot. The system I am trying to use it on is the folowing: True Blue IBM PC 5150 Kouwei KW-530D High Density disk controller Paradise VGA Plus card Novell Star NIC card Western Digital WDXT-GEN2 Plus card 1.2 5 1/2 drive (disk 0) 360k 5 1/2 drive (disk 1) 2 20 meg MFM hard drives What's happening is as follows: I boot with disk 1 (PC Boot) and get to the boot screen. I switch disks to disk 4 (using the 1.2 meg drive as a 360) and load the ram disk. It says "Remove root disk" and then stops. Scenerio 2 has me trying using fd1 as the root system (the 360 drive)... it says "cannot read track 2/1" (or something like that) and then gets around to a file system panic. Wierd, cause the 360 works just great for DOS. Scenerio 3 has me using the root disk directly in drive 0 (not RAM disk) in which case it says "switch to /usr disk" and when I do lists off about 5 things it's trying to do and most of them say things like "no shell present", etc. Help!!!!