C0033003%DBSTU1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (03/31/88)
Is there someone out in the world / in netland who has experience with MINIX running on ITT 80386 systems ( they call it XTRA professional series 700 ) ? After using it on ATs I'd like to bring MINIX to this new machine. But only the boot disk works. After start loading the root file system from the 2nd floppy the machine can only be reactivated by a hard reset ( power on ). Disc controller is made by DATA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION ( who ever that may be ). Sounds familiar to someone ? Any contribution would be appreciated. Detlef J. Schmidt C0033003 at DBSTU1.BITNET Computing center RZ University of Brunswick TU ( ye olde one ) BS
wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) (04/03/88)
In article <1814@louie.udel.EDU>, C0033003%DBSTU1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes: > Is there someone out in the world / in netland who has experience > with MINIX running on ITT 80386 systems ( they call it XTRA professional > series 700 ) ? > > After using it on ATs I'd like to bring MINIX to this new machine. But > only the boot disk works. After start loading the root file system > from the 2nd floppy the machine can only be reactivated by a hard > reset ( power on ). This is the same behavior I've noted when trying to boot Minix on two different 386 machines: AMT 386, with 64K SRAM cache, and Acer 1100, using interleaved RAM. I've even tried slowing them to 6 MHz - still didn't work. We began tracing the problem, and decided it probably lives in the BIOS. We have some NEC APC IV's here, 2 with Rev A BIOS, and 2 with Rev B BIOS. The two with Rev B boot Minix without problems, the two with Rev A act the same as the 386s. When you press `=' to tell the Minix loader program to load Minix, it makes a BIOS call to do something (I can't remember what, and I can't call anyone right now, obie is on the phone to wsccs). Apparently, this BIOS call is where it dies. I think this BIOS call is only made in the AT version of Minix. Wes Peters -- /\ - "Against Stupidity, - {backbones}! /\/\ . /\ - The Gods Themselves - utah-cs!utah-gr! / \/ \/\/ \ - Contend in Vain." - uplherc!sp7040! / U i n T e c h \ - Schiller - obie!wes