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From: jdp@uk.ac.city (Jeff Penfold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Booting MINIX-ST
Keywords: boot harddisk
Message-ID: <1989Nov17.132629.3568@cs.city.ac.uk>
Date: 17 Nov 89 13:26:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1989Nov17.132629.3568
Reply-To: jdp@uk.ac.city (Jeff Penfold)
Organization: City University, London
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Hello,

I have been using Minix on my Atari for some months now, with just the
aid of two 720K floppy disks.  The time had come to buy a harddisk so
that I can unpack those sources properly, and really do something.

What I have found since getting the harddisk is that I cannot get Minix
running with the Harddisk attached to the Atari.  I thought to skirt
around this problem by creating a "MINIX.IMG" file on the hard disk, and
then booting Minix with the program "MINIX.PRG".

Sadly, no.

When I created the boot image from the *original* boot disk, "00.Boot",
with the command "rflop a: minix.img 130000",  a file was created.  But,
when I ran the command "minix minix.img", the responce was "minix.img:
wrong format" (or very close to this), why?  How can I get round this?
Can someone send me a fix for this?

Of course, a general problem is why can't I boot from the minix floppy
with the harddisk attached?

Sorry this has been so long, I hope you can help,



				Jeff Penfold


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