hamilton@oce.usc.edu (michael hamilton) (09/06/90)
Hi there MINIX people.. I have an old, ca 1982 IBM PC (with a cassette
port, yet) that I'm trying to resurrect to run MINIX. Problem is that it
won't boot... I have a Seagate ST238 installed in place of one of the twice-
height floppy drives, and as soon as I get past the bios message from the
hd controller and the system tries to boot off the MINIX floppy, the machine
goes right into the BASIC interpreter. Bummer.
It *does*, however, boot off my Mitsuba AT clone and works just fine.
My suspicion is that the BIOS on the motherboard of the PC is just too old
to know what to do with the boot track on the MINIX system disk. Has anyone
else had this same problem, and can you offer possible solutions? I know
I'll get it figured out sooner or later... it may just take buying a new
BIOS or one of those $25 motherboards.
Tan(Q).
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michael hamilton
usc ocean physics
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