bob@rancor.UUCP (Bob Willcox) (04/23/91)
I just got a copy of the minix demo disk (from ftp.cs.vu.nl, CRC
checked ok) and booted it on my IBM 286 AT clone and have run into some
trouble. It boot okay; prompts for the keyboard type, date & time,
then login. This is where the trouble begins. After keying in "root"
it usally just sits there with no response, echoes characters but seems
to ignore them. Hitting Ctl-D will cause it to prompt for password
then complain about invalid login. After that, hitting enter will
cause it to output an entire line of
login: login: login: login: ...
A couple of times (exactly twice, actually) it has apparently
successfully logged me in, but then nothing works. The first time the
command "ls -l" failed with complaints of it being too complex. The
second time the command "ls -l /bin" locked the system up.
Anybody have any ideas what could be wrong? Am I simply unfortunate
enough to have an insufficiently compatible clone that will not work
with minix?
Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
P.S.: The system that I am trying to run this on is a 16mHz 286 with 2mb
of memory and AMI BIOS. The motherboard is of Tiawan manufacture. Runs
MSDOS fine (of course).
Thanks,
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Phone: 512 258-4224