brog@sloth.UUCP (Chris Brougham) (10/07/90)
Hi everyone,
I received my copy of Minix 1.5 (PC) a couple days ago and have been
having fun and frustration with the OS. I took me two attempts to
install it on the XT's RLL drive (a DTK XT and a Kalox drive with a wd
rll controller). It worked with the universal boot disk.
I do have a lot of trouble at times booting the OS from the floppy
root file system, and at times from the hd root file system.
Messages such as these oftn greet me:
Loading RAM disk
Debug exception
process number 1, pc = 0x15F0x00000065
or
kernil panic: exception in kernel mm or fs
Type any key to reboot.
Is this normal? They sometimes come in bunches, that is I don't
have any trouble booting minix then all of a sudden I can't
boot the OS for an hour. Does not seem to make much of a
difference whether its a cold or warm boot either...
One specifi question I'd like to ask concerns ps.
I get the message:
Can't read kernel namelist: No such file or directory
evertime I type ps. What do I have to do to create a
namelist?
All in all very neat and fun and well worth the money. P-H
seems to be much better than I had expected :-)
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chris brougham
brog@sloth.wimsey.bc.ca