terry@braille.uwo.ca (Terry Cudney) (03/11/91)
Can anyone tell me what is going wrong with my boot procedure? Is it
a corrupt Root File System disk? or my system?
Following the instructions in the manual that came with Minix 1.5
(on 12 3.5" 720k disks) I get identical results booting with
Disk #3 Universal Boot Disk,
and with
Disk #12 Boot Disk with ST-506 Hard Disk.
The Boot Disk seems to load OK. I get the prompt to remove it and
type '=' when the Root Disk is in place. The Root Disk reading gives
error messages of the form:
xK Unrecoverable disk error on device 2/0, block n
where 'x' is a number from 5 to 125, in increments of 5.
There is one message of this form for each of the following
values of 'n':
8 11 15 18 26
30 33 37 40 48
52 55 59 67 70
74 77 81 89 92
96 99 107 111 114
118 121 129
After getting all these error messages (more than a screenful) the
system just hangs, nothing will do anything without a reboot.
My system is a 8/16 Mhz 386sx, 1.44 Meg 3.5" drive A,
1.2 Meg 5.25" drive B, 40 Meg IDE HardDisk, 2 Meg Ram.
I've tried this with the 3.5" drive A CMOS setup to both
1.44 Meg and 720 K settings, and with the Turbo set to both 16 MHz
and 8 MHz, with the same results in all cases.
Can anyone confirm/deny that this shows Disk #4 Root File System,
to be corrupt? Or is my system somehow incompatible? This same Minix
package was tried on another system without success, but I don't know
what the exact symptoms were there.
If indeed, the disk is corrupt, how/where do we go about getting
a good copy? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
--terry
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