flank@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Brett Jacobson) (10/10/90)
This is being posted for a friend, Chris Petrilli, who doesn't at the moment have net access (on leave of UT). -------- Has anyone been able to get Minix (PC v1.5.10) working on a Texas Instruments Business-Pro? The current configuration of the one I use is: 80286@8Mhz 2.1Mb of RAM CDC Wren II 48Mb HD TI MFM HD/Floppy Controller (uses NEC u765 chip) TI Video Adapter TI PC/AT Video Adapter (both connected using ribbon cable) TI Speech II DSP board 3+Com Etherlink adapter Archive Viper 60Mb DC600 tape backup 1.2Mb 5 1/4" floppy The problem seems to be in recognizing (sp?) the floppy format (currently booting off of 360K). It prints the "Booting MINIX v1.5.." message, reads a little more off of the floppy, and then locks. It will understand a soft boot (i.e. Cntrl-Alt-Del), so I suspect the floppy is being mis-interpreted. Has anyone sucessfully (or even just kind-of) gotten Minix to run on the TI? I know the Speech board and other stuff is wierd, but I would prefer to keep it, as I am going to try and get some of it working under Minix if I can. Any suggestions? Chris ----