rickr@virtech.uucp (Rick Rodman) (11/04/90)
I have just spent about 4 hours trying to load Minix 1.5 on my AT-clone, and I'm really peeved. 1. The setup_usr script will NOT WORK if /dev/hd2 is the root. You MUST have a RAM-disk (cost: 2 hours). This is because /dev/hd2 cannot be mounted - It's already mounted!! (page 18 of manual) 2. I have 1MB of memory in my AT, so on the second pass, I followed the instructions on page 12 to make a 512 K RAM-disk as suggested. Now, when I boot (but see comment #3) the system displays an error message, immediately clears the screen (and I do mean *immediately*) and reboots. 3. On page 16 of manual, it omits the step that you must use I followed by H3 to select hard disk as source of RAM image. 4. Just like Minix 1.2, if you type any extraneous characters during booting (such as the *shift key*!) the OS crashes later. 5. O.K. so I generate a 384K RAM disk and now everything works ...up to page 18 again. I run setup_usr and after two or three minutes get the errors: unrecoverable disk error on device 2/0 at block 453 nonmaskable interrupt kernel panic - type any key to reboot I can't believe that a disk error requires a reboot, but for whatever reason, I can't get past this point. I'm STUCK. 6. Another quibble is the fact that the system tries to write to the write- protected diskettes. Obviously, since these are masters, I would not put them into the machine without write-protecting them. Only an idiot would suggest such a thing. But the manual does not suggest making backups of them. Any suggestions? Has anyone had any luck with this package? Oh one more point. 7. There is no number, address, or anything else in the manual as to where someone should call or write for help. Is it Prentice-Hall's intention to orphan people out there with a manual containing errors and omissions possibly bad diskettes and NO WHERE TO GO FOR HELP? Well? uunet!virtech!rickr (5 hours now) -- Rick Rodman uunet!virtech!rickr "Yesterday's Tomorrow is Here Today"
feustel@netcom.UUCP (David Feustel) (11/05/90)
I have the PH Minix 1.5 dist. Explicit instructions to back up the diskettes are given. The Minix support number is printed on the carton: 1-800-624-0023 or 1-201-767-5969. -- David Feustel, 1930 Curdes Ave, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, (219) 482-9631
leipold@eplrx7.uucp (Walt Leipold) (11/06/90)
In article <1990Nov03.172209.28565@virtech.uucp> Rick Rodman writes: >[setting up Minix 1.5 on a PC-AT...] >5. O.K. so I generate a 384K RAM disk and now everything works ...up to page > 18 again. I run setup_usr and after two or three minutes get the errors: > > unrecoverable disk error on device 2/0 at block 453 > >Rick Rodman uunet!virtech!rickr "Yesterday's Tomorrow is Here Today" Surprise, surprise -- I get *exactly* the same error (even the same block number) while running setup_usr under the Macintosh verion of Minix 1.5! I've tried a few simple fixes, but nothing seems to help. Has anybody seen this error and subsequently conquered it? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you want to read about love and marriage, Walt Leipold you've got to buy two separate books." (leipolw%esvax@dupont.com) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- The UUCP Mailer