hamilton@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Paul.Hamilton) (08/17/90)
Help: I am trying to run version 1.3 of Minix on my AT Compatible, running at either 6 or 10 Mhz... When I insert the root file system disk in drive A and press the = key, the following sequence of events occurs... The hard disk light flashes for a second then the following message is displayed: Unexpected interupt or trap: vector = 13. pc = 0x1DB text+data+bbs = 0x9A00 From this point on, the floppy disk drive light stays on and nothing else happens. The keyboard is still functional and pressing F1 brings up a display which contains the following information among other things: proc pid pc ... ... recv FS 0 BF2 FLOPPY FLOPPY 0 64AB IDLE INIT 0 64AB FS I assume from this that INIT process is blocked waiting on FS, FS is blocked waiting on FLOPPY and FLOPPY is blocked waiting on some message to be passed up from the floppy driver. But no message ever arrives... Pressing F2 brings up the following: PROC TEXT DATA STACK BASE SIZE MM 0 B12 0 0 B12 3C2 3C2 ED4 0 44K 15K FS 0 ED4 0 0 ED4 DA2 DA2 1C76 0 59K 55K INIT 0 1C76 0 0 1C76 108 108 1D7E 0 114K 4K This means very little to me... I assume it is just the memory organisation map. The problem must definitely exist with the hard disk/controller as as when I unplug the controller card and try to boot up again, the system comes up correctly. The hard disk is a 20 meg microscribe with an RLL controller giving 32 meg storage capacity. I wish to run a partitioned hard disk with MSDOS in partition 1 and MINIX in partition 2 so running without the hard disk is out of the question... I would certainly appreciate any input from more experienced minix users. I can either be contacted through this group or by direct email at: hamilton@syd.dit.csiro.au (Yes Australia) Thanking you in advance... A very confused Paul Hamilton CSIRO Division of Information Technology Sydney Australia.