williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams) (04/11/90)
Here's my 'evergreen' problem list for minix. I have 1.5.5 working, except
for these problems:
1. ls is broke, at least when I make it.
I have ls.c that matches crc, and all my library files match CRC
and still ls dumps core when you do an 'ls -l'.
I STILL have a problem with a multiple definition of '_20' or '_21'
with ctime.s, even after getting the supposedly latest compiler
programs from bugs.nosc.mil. No one else seems to have this problem,
but it persists despite my best efforts.
Can somebody send me a working ls binary, and tell me what I'm doing
wrong?
2. Serial port doesn't work. I try term and kermit, and they're both
worthless in talking to my modem. Term does a little better
-- I can make the modem lights dance, and even get it to dial
out, but I never see any data from the modem on my screen.
This is with a standard serial card, a standard modem, and a
25-pin straight through cable.
SOMEONE is successfully using serial ports -- could they let
me in on the secret?
3. Fdisk doesn't like my disk. I have a CMI 30MB disk, which the BIOS
sees as an IBM standard type 3. If I use minix fdisk on it,
it loses track of half my partition. What I ended up doing is:
1. Use Xenix Fdisk to set up the partition, and 2. Do a minix
mkfs on the Xenix partition. Once I do this, minix Fdisk
refuses to mark it as a minix partition, complaining about the
partition table being wrong. If anyone's interested in helping
me, I'll mail them output from minix fdisk (raw partition
table, etc) and they can see what they think.
4. No format program. Bruce went to the trouble of adding it to the
kernel, but I have seen no mention of how to use it or (gasp!)
a format program. Imagine this -- a format program that
builds a bad track table that mkfs could use to map out bad
blocks!
5. Has anyone else noticed that if you try and put a hd3 partition on
your disk, and it has bad blocks in it, that the root fs load
gets garbled up? I don't even pretend to know how to fix
this!
--
Kent Williams 'Look, I can understand "teenage mutant ninja
williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu turtles", but I can't understand "mutually
recursive inline functions".' - Paul Chisholmoverby@plains.UUCP (Glen Overby) (04/11/90)
In article <1205@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> williams@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams) writes: >Here's my 'evergreen' problem list for minix. I have 1.5.5 working, except >for these problems: > >1. ls is broke, at least when I make it. does your system fully CRC check? did you rebuild (and install) the library first? >2. Serial port doesn't work. I try term and kermit, and they're both As distributed, Minix requires modem control. try changing /usr/include/minix/config.h so that rs232.c doesn't use modem control. that worked for me. >3. Fdisk doesn't like my disk. I have a CMI 30MB disk, which the BIOS do you set the number of heads (-h) and number of sectors / track when you run fdisk? >4. No format program. Bruce went to the trouble of adding it to the use dos. > kernel, but I have seen no mention of how to use it or (gasp!) > a format program. Imagine this -- a format program that > builds a bad track table that mkfs could use to map out bad > blocks! Sorry, That's illegal. Inteligence in the PC world is strictly NOT allowed :-) >5. Has anyone else noticed that if you try and put a hd3 partition on > your disk, and it has bad blocks in it, that the root fs load > gets garbled up? I don't even pretend to know how to fix > this! to be expected, since the partition is scraped raw into memory. try movin the disk areas you use for hd3; if necessary, you can set the image device with 'i' from the boot menu. -- Glen Overby <overby@plains.nodak.edu> uunet!plains!overby (UUCP) overby@plains (Bitnet)