schimmel@cogsci.ucsd.EDU (John E. Schimmel) (10/05/89)
Hello, I am new to the wonderfull world of Minix so am sorry if
this has come up before.
I baught Minix for my 12Mhz Packard Bell 286, but it won't boot.
I get an error reading the disk. I assume this is due to one of
two reasons: either my packard bell is not IBM compatible enough,
or the boot code in Minix doesn't know about 1.2m floppy drives.
Anyway, I would very much like to hack on this so if anyone has
done this, or knows how I could go about getting this puppy to boot,
please send me e-mail.
Thank you.
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John E. Schimmel |
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jes@loral.cts.com |ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby) (10/08/89)
In article <782@cogsci.ucsd.EDU> schimmel@cogsci.UUCP (John E. Schimmel) writes: >I baught Minix for my 12Mhz Packard Bell 286, but it won't boot. Minix does know about 1.2M 5.25" and 720K 3.5" disks. I've seen three Packard-Bell '386 machines, and they used a Western Digital integrated floppy/hard disk controler. I never got into that board's documentation far enough to know exactly why Minix won't run, but I think they're doing something funny with either addresses, interrupts or both. It uses the right kind of floppy controler chip. I think if you hacked up the floppy disk driver up to use the ROM, it would work (slowly, but work). -- Glen Overby <ncoverby@plains.nodak.edu> uunet!ndsuvax!ncoverby (UUCP) ncoverby@ndsuvax (Bitnet)