randyt@sequent.UUCP (Randy Thompson) (11/01/90)
I just received my copy of mac minix, excitedly tore the celophane off of the package and began reading the manual in preparation for installing it. After a few false starts I was able to get it installed and running. Not too bad really since I have been following the traffic on this newsgroup and had the benefit of those that went before me. Anyway, I made a few errors in setting up my disk partitions so I decided to remove it and re-install it with the new partition sizes that I had decided upon. After I deleted the old installation and then cleaned up a bit so that I would have more room, I inserted my duplicate copy of the 00.BOOT disk and launched the Macboot application. Here is the result: File system panic: Invalid root filesystem. Type any key to exit. I figured that something happened to my duplicate disk so I made another copy of the original and tried booting it with the same result. I made NO system changes from the time of the 1st installation on. All I did was move some files from the partition that was to house minix so that I could dedicate the entire partition to minix. After my 4th aborted attempt at booting from the 00.BOOT disk, I re-initialized the partition that minix had been installed on just in case. No luck here either. Here is my system config: Mac SE/30 5 MB RAM Quantum 40MB internal HD Maxtor 200MB external HD (Being installed on a 50MB partition on this disk) Finder 6.1.5 System 5.0.5 NO Additional INITs or CDEVs Anyone have any ideas? THANKS in advance! [ waiting {im}patiently for the reply that makes me kick myself.....] _________________________________________________________________________ \ \ Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. \_ \_ -\- Federal Sales Operations +-----+ \ \ \ \ \ 1420 Springhill Road | # | \ \ \ \_) Suite 210 | | Randall H. Thompson McLean, Virginia 22102 +-----+ (703)442-9100 randyt@dcasqnt.dca.sequent.com F S O _________________________________________________________________________
archetyp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph R Pickert) (11/02/90)
randyt@sequent.UUCP (Randy Thompson) writes: >Anyway, I made a few errors in setting up my disk partitions so I >decided to remove it and re-install it with the new partition >sizes that I had decided upon. After I deleted the old >installation and then cleaned up a bit so that I would have >more room, I inserted my duplicate copy of the 00.BOOT disk and >launched the Macboot application. Here is the result: > File system panic: Invalid root filesystem. > Type any key to exit. This will happen if you uncheck the "Use RAM disk" in the configuration dialog box. In order to get it reset properly, hold down the mouse button immediatly after double clicking (launching) the Macboot application. When the configuration box appears, make sure the "Use RAM disk" item is checked. If not, check it and click Ok. This may get yuou back on your way. Joe Pickert