vancleef@iastate.edu (Van Cleef Henry H) (04/13/91)
I recently downloaded the IBM PC demo from plains to send to a Cobol Wizard who wants to learn Minix and build a Cobol compiler for it. I tried it on my Epson Equity LT. Zcat'ed through dd to a 720K floppy. The floppy boots to the first screen, but pressing = to continue results in Panic, cannot find Winchester partition table. I have been running the PH 1.5 release for a couple of months; it boots the XT and AT boot disks, but the Bios boot disk gives the same result as the demo. My friend has a 2 X 720K XT clone (brand unknown) and would like to run the demo. I have no indication that Equity LT is not hardware compatible except that Minix setclock can't find the backup clock (which is not an XT feature, though my machine has one). I don't see anything in the manual for the demo that says that you have to have a hard disk to run the demo. For reference, the Epson LT runs a NEC V30 which has 80186 instructions. Anybody have any ideas as to what I am doing wrong? --
nall@cs.utk.edu (John Nall) (04/13/91)
In article <1991Apr12.185342.4699@news.iastate.edu> vancleef@iastate.edu (Van Cleef Henry H) writes: >I recently downloaded the IBM PC demo from plains to send to a Cobol >Wizard who wants to learn Minix and build a Cobol compiler for it. Right. And don't forget about Ada - we need that too. And, oh let's see now, perhaps a good relational database system.... The possibilities boggle the mind, chill the blood, call for a stiff drink, and make one check the calender to see April what, now? John Nall
gt0812b@prism.gatech.EDU (John Adair) (04/17/91)
In article <1991Apr12.185342.4699@news.iastate.edu> vancleef@iastate.edu (Van Cleef Henry H) writes: >The floppy boots to the first screen, but pressing = to continue results >in Panic, cannot find Winchester partition table. I have been running I have an IBM PC2 (256k M/B) with 640k, dual floppy, no HD. I get the same problem. There is no partition table, because there is no hard drive. How hard is it to check the equipment settings??? Not a very useful demo. Sure didn't convince me to shell out over a hundred hard-earned student dollars for a hack-OS. John Adair : gt0812b%prism@gatech.edu : gt0812b%prism.gatech.edu@gitvm1 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt0812b 30812 Georgia Tech Station, Atlanta, GA 30332 Disclaimer: "I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove anything." Dad: "You're up awful early." Jason: "Technically, I'm up awful late."