Steve Houser <houser@dunvagen.usmsas.maine.edu> (03/27/91)
Hello- Well, Ive finally recieved Minix 1.5 after a few years of 1.3 and trying to get all the updates through the net I finaly gave up and sent in my check! Unfortunately, I have a few computers at home, most with 5 1/4 drives so I figured I'd be running Minix on those, only to discover after starting in again on this here newsgroup, that there is Minix -386! How wonderful, my brand-new PS/2 could use a nice 32-bit Operating system! I recompiled the kernel, fs.. etc (allthough it only appeared i needed to compile the kernel) with the ps_wini driver (it says it works on a 55sx) then re-compiled all in tools, and made my image, copied to a 1.4M disk, and plopped it in the ol IBM box. When I boot, I get the MINIX banner at the top of the screen, and then the OS is loaded (at least I think it is), the disk stops spinning and nothing... absoloutely nothing, not even the menu. Anyone have any Ideas? ive been playing with it for a few days now but cannot seem to find that ureka! that I'm looking for. Everything seems to work fin on my 286 clone (w/4mb, AT controller). The PS/2 has - 2M, 30M drive (esdi) and the ROM BIOS byte matches with the one in cstart.c (that was mentioned in the 1.5 manual set) And I have PH MINIX 1.5 - right out of the box. Thanks, any help would help! Stephen Houser .