l1ngo@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu (03/06/91)
Hello, I recently bought Minix 1.5 from Waldensoft. Everything seems to work fine with my Compudyne 286/16 with 2 Seagate IDE Hard drives (40 Meg, and 110 Meg) except I cannot get the ram image to load from HD3. I've tried just about everything such as paritioning hd3 to 512K and then mkfs /dev/hd3 512, and also parititioning hd3 to 5 Megs and mkfs /dev/hd3 512. The same thing happens everytime I select ram image: hd3 from the start-up menu: system panic--not enough memory (or something like that--the screen freaks out and the computer resets quickly). I have 1 Meg of ram, so I am baffled. I have also tried mkfs /dev/hd3 360 (and smaller) to no avail. The manual does not help much. I've had to resort to using /dev/hd3 as my root device. I'd appreciate any info offered. Thanks, Linh lngo@copper.denver.colorado.edu l1ngo@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu
windy@andrej.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Andrew John Stuart Miller) (03/08/91)
l1ngo@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu writes: >Hello, >I recently bought Minix 1.5 from Waldensoft. Everything seems to work fine >with my Compudyne 286/16 with 2 Seagate IDE Hard drives (40 Meg, and 110 >Meg) except I cannot get the ram image to load from HD3. I've tried just >about everything such as paritioning hd3 to 512K and then mkfs /dev/hd3 512, >and also parititioning hd3 to 5 Megs and mkfs /dev/hd3 512. The same thing >happens everytime I select ram image: hd3 from the start-up menu: >system panic--not enough memory (or something like that--the screen freaks >out and the computer resets quickly). I have 1 Meg of ram, so I am baffled. >I have also tried mkfs /dev/hd3 360 (and smaller) to no avail. The manual >does not help much. >I've had to resort to using /dev/hd3 as my root device. I'd appreciate any >info offered. Thanks, >Linh >lngo@copper.denver.colorado.edu >l1ngo@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu HOW MUCH RAM DO YOU HAVE? HOW MUCH RAM DOES YOUR KERNEL USE? RAMDISK+KERNEL<=640K! If in doubt read the manual, look at the sources. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- email: windy@strange.informatik.rwth-aachen.de snail: Ruetscherstr 165 D-5100 Aachen voice: 0049 (0)241 894-355
CRAWFORD_B%PLU.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (brian) (03/09/91)
We're using /dev/hd3 as a ram image for our machine here at PLU. We're running Minix on a 286 with 4 megs of memory. We partitioned the hard drive into three partitions: one for DOS, one for Minix, and one for the ram image. Finding a 290K ram disk (which is what we had from floppy before this) to be too small, I mkfs'ed /dev/hd3 into a 1,000 block device and copied all the stuff I wanted on the ram disk to it. I then did mknod to create all the devices in the /dev directory. Now, when Minix boots, the ram image is loaded (once Minix figures out the floppy in drive 0 is not a root file system) from /dev/hd3 into extended memory. It works great. Have you tried this with your system? brian crawford (CRAWFORD_B@PLU.BITNET)