scholes@spot.Colorado.EDU (SCHOLES MARTIN LEE) (03/13/91)
Please forgive me if I am missing something obvious, or if this question has been asked before, but... I am having difficulty getting Minix to boot on my 386. The machine does the POST, and then the top line reads, "Booting MINIX v1.5, etc, etc." This lasts for just a few seconds before the second screen line flashes, "Read error: Automatic reboot." The machine then does what it promises, and reboots, and reboots, and reboots, until I take the disk out. My machine is an old Micronix 386-20, with 6 meg of RAM, a 200M IDE drive (can't believe this is the cause) with a integrated floppy controller (tho this may be). The machine has a paradise VGA card, and a 287 coprocessor. I shadow the BIOS and VGA, but unshadowing them didn't change a thing. It has a 1.2M floppy (A:), and a 720k floppy(b:). The MINIX disks (360k) are issued by our school, and boot OK on the school boxes (5Mhz XTs). I tried all three boot disks: PC/XT, AT, and Generic, all give the same response. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanx, Marty