roger@imagen.UUCP (Roger C. Wang) (12/27/90)
oberme@bass.bu.edu (Lance Obermeyer) wrote: > When I try to boot with any of the 3 diskettes, I get the first line > and then 'Read error. Automatic reboot." It then really shakes the > floppy disk and repeats. I had the same problem. My hardware has Phoenix BIOS, 1.2 MB and 1.44MB drives. My minix boot diskette is 3.5 720K. Even though I did run CMOS setup to set my disk drive to 3.5 720K, BIOS still try to read it as 1.44MB density on reboot. I wound up writing a program to copy 720K diskette to 1.2MB diskette sector by sector in logical order (track 0 head 1 sector 1 of 720K diskette is mapped to track 0 head 0 sector 10 of 1.2 MB drive); then reboot from 1.2MB diskette. I am sure there are other ways to do it, but ... If you need my simple program for reference, send my a mail.
srm@dimacs.rutgers.edu (Scott R. Myers) (12/28/90)
In article <17634@imagen.UUCP> roger@imagen.UUCP (Roger C. Wang) writes: > oberme@bass.bu.edu (Lance Obermeyer) wrote: > > > When I try to boot with any of the 3 diskettes, I get the first line > > and then 'Read error. Automatic reboot." It then really shakes the > > floppy disk and repeats. > > I had the same problem. My hardware has Phoenix BIOS, 1.2 MB and 1.44MB drives. > My minix boot diskette is 3.5 720K. Even though I did run CMOS setup to > set my disk drive to 3.5 720K, BIOS still try to read it as 1.44MB > density on reboot. > I wound up writing a program to copy 720K diskette to 1.2MB diskette sector by > sector in logical order (track 0 head 1 sector 1 of 720K diskette is mapped I have a 1.44MB 3.5" and a 1.2MB 5.25" with a 386sx running with the Phoenix BIOS. I had a strange problem installing Minix 1.5 at first. Strange bad sector errors. I pulled my system apart and nothing worked. I finally put everthing back together and suddenly it worked and has worked since. I do recall having a similiar problem about 9 months ago when I tried to install OS/2. Though OS/2 comes 1.44MB format. Don't know what all this has to do with the tea in China but maybe it'll help. Good lunch... srm -- Scott R. Myers Snail: 26 Stiles Street Phone:(201)352-4162 Apartment 18 Elizabeth, NJ 07201 Arpa: srm@dimacs.rutgers.edu Uucp: ..!dimacs!srm "... No matter where you go, there you are ..."
bvickers@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers) (12/28/90)
Well I just unpacked Minix 1.5 and tried to get it to boot on my
386SX, but none of the three disks would boot. I ordered Minix on
5.25" 360k floppies.
Here is a list of my relevant hardware:
x 386SX clone
x 1.2Meg floppy drive (floppy drive 0)
x 1.44Meg floppy drive (floppy drive 1)
x SCSI 205meg Conner hard drive
x Future domain SCSI controller card onto which I hook up my
floppy drives and hard disk
The first time I tried booting with Boot Disk #2, and I got the
standard "Read error. Rebooting." message. But ever since then
I have not seen that error. Instead, when I boot off of any of
the three floppies, the computer just looks at them and then proceeds
to boot MS-DOS from my hard drive.
I've also tried unhooking the hard drive and booting all three boot
disks, but each time I get BOOT DISK FAILURE.
Is this happening because I am trying to boot 360k disks off of a
1.2Meg floppy? In MS-DOS I can read 360k disks from the 1.2Meg,
but that may not be the case with Minix. If this is indeed the
problem, what is the solution?
I'm a little disappointed with the documentation -- especially the
Troubleshooting section. It's so bare and nebulous that it's really
of little use at all.
Brett Vickers (bvickers@ics.uci.edu)
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