degeard@oneb.wimsey.bc.ca (Dave DeGear) (06/15/91)
From: degeard@oneb.wimsey.bc.ca
Organization: 1B Systems Management Limited, Nanaimo, B.C.
I'm trying to use the Minix Demo program but my computer keeps
locking up. The following is what my screen shows before it
locks up:
Memory Size=832k MINIX=156k RAM disk=192k Available=484k
Executing in real mode
Loading RAM disk Loaded: 45k
^^^
The computer is a IBM clone 386-33Mhz with a 64k cache. I've tried
running with the cache off and also with Shadow ram off. I've got
4 megs of Ram installed. The computer usually locks up somewhere
between the 45k and 115k loaded message. I've been able to have the
Minix load completely only once in about 8 tries. The same boot disk
will work on two other computers that I tried at work, but not on
mine. Has anyone else had a similar problem?
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using the format on the left in the msgbody | |davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (06/17/91)
In article <1991Jun14.170233.18317@oneb.wimsey.bc.ca> degeard@oneb.wimsey.bc.ca (Dave DeGear) writes: | The computer is a IBM clone 386-33Mhz with a 64k cache. I've tried | running with the cache off and also with Shadow ram off. I've got | 4 megs of Ram installed. The computer usually locks up somewhere | between the 45k and 115k loaded message. I've been able to have the | Minix load completely only once in about 8 tries. The same boot disk | will work on two other computers that I tried at work, but not on | mine. Has anyone else had a similar problem? Not with MINIX, but other odd software. If you system has an A20 option in setup (how address line 20 works), play with that. I have no idea if it will help, but it is important to other software. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
degear@ondeck (Dave DeGear) (06/18/91)
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes: > In article <1991Jun14.170233.18317@oneb.wimsey.bc.ca> degeard@oneb.wimsey.bc. > > | The computer is a IBM clone 386-33Mhz with a 64k cache. I've tried > | running with the cache off and also with Shadow ram off. I've got > | 4 megs of Ram installed. The computer usually locks up somewhere > | between the 45k and 115k loaded message. I've been able to have the > | Minix Demo load completely only once in about 8 tries. The same boot disk > | will work on two other computers that I tried at work, but not on > | mine. Has anyone else had a similar problem? > > Not with MINIX, but other odd software. If you system has an A20 > option in setup (how address line 20 works), play with that. I have no > idea if it will help, but it is important to other software. My setup allows A20 to be off or on. I tried it in both positions and it didn't make any difference. My Bios is a Mr Bios Ver. E1.0B by Micoroid Research (1991) and the chipset is a OPTi386WB. So far this is the only program that has refused to work on this computer. --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=- | Dave DeGear ...!ubc-cs!van-bc!oneb!ondeck!degear| | Department of Chemistry ondeck.oneb.wimsey.bc.ca | | Malaspina College, Nanaimo, BC, Can degear@mala.bc.ca | --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-