cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose) (01/28/91)
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INET: cwr@pnet01.cts.comrdc30med@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson) (01/28/91)
In article <1991Jan27.222238.5886@agate.berkeley.edu> dc@caveat.berkeley.edu (Dave Cottingham) writes: >I posted here recently asking (begging, really) for help getting >Minix-386 to boot. I'd like to thank all the folks that responded >with helpful advice, and the winning entry goes to Eric J. Lu who >suggested that there might be a problem with Minix-386 reading a 1.44M >floppy. So I copied my boot disk onto a 1.2M floppy, swapped the >cables in my box to make that the A: drive, and voila, it came right >up. Still haven't figured out how to get it to read a 1.44M floppy, >but the major problem is solved. > Did you use the "makedev" script that Burce(?) posted last fall? It sets up the correct maj,min numbers for the 1.44 drive and links them to the device name in /etc/dev. I use Min-386 with a 1.44 A: drive all the time, both as the boot drive and the root fs, I use a 1.2 Meg floppy for /usr, can't convince my wife to let me steal 20Meg from the hd for minix :-( I had to use a two step process to do it, using another machine to first create a 720K bootable floppy and get the correct entries in /etc/dev, then creating a 1.44 system using shoelace to boot it up. -- Mike Dobson, Sys Admin for | Internet: rdc30med@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil | UUCP: ...uunet!mimsy!nmrdc1!rdc30med AT&T 3B2/600G Sys V R 3.2.2 | BITNET: dobson@usuhsb or nrd0mxd@vmnmdsc WIN/TCP for 3B2 | MCI-Mail: 377-2719 or 0003772719@mcimail.com
ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer) (01/28/91)
In <1991Jan27.222238.5886@agate.berkeley.edu> dc@caveat.berkeley.edu (Dave Cottingham) writes: >I posted here recently asking (begging, really) for help getting >Minix-386 to boot. I'd like to thank all the folks that responded >with helpful advice, and the winning entry goes to Eric J. Lu who >suggested that there might be a problem with Minix-386 reading a 1.44M >floppy. So I copied my boot disk onto a 1.2M floppy, swapped the >cables in my box to make that the A: drive, and voila, it came right >up. Still haven't figured out how to get it to read a 1.44M floppy, >but the major problem is solved. You need a bootblok that knows how to read 1.44M disks. I posted a new bootblok.s about two weeks ago that knows how to do this. Please write if you need it. > - Dave Cottingham > dc@caveat.berkeley.edu -- Guy Helmer helmer@sdnet.bitnet, uunet!dsuvax!ghelmer Dakota State University Computing Services ------------------- (605) 256-5315 MidIX -- networks, databases, DOS, UNIX, & MINIX ------------- (605) 256-2788