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From: anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix on a Z-386
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Date: 14 Jan 90 13:21:45 GMT
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In article <12500001@ucf-cs.ucf.edu>, richard@ucf-cs.ucf.edu writes...

]I am interested in running minix on a Zenith Z-386.  A friend gave me a
]copy of minix v1.2 that he compiled with the AT-wini driver.  The system
]will boot into the first menu.  I can perform file system checks
]and list the file system on the root file system.  All seems ok.  
]Then, when I put a 360K floppy root file system into my 1.2M drive 0 
]and press the = key, the floppy drive activates, the head lifts and 
]drops several times (I can hear this happening), and I get the following
]message:
] 
]  Unrecoverable disk error on device 2/0, block 1
]  File system panic: Diskette in drive 0 is not root file system.
] 
]  Press space to reboot.

I get this about every tenth attempt to boot Minix on my AT 
clone.  I don't think your machine has a reset button, but 
mine does, and I get better results with a cold boot than a
warm one.  You'd have to cycle the power, I think.  This is
with out-of-the-box 1.3 for AT.

I just try again; it's never happened twice in a row.  
Rather odd.

]If anyone out there is running on a 386 machine and can verify or deny
]the LOCK, NOP claim, I would appreciate hearing about it.  Or, if any
]one is running on a Z-386 and can tell me what is going on, I'd like
]to hear from you, also.

1.3 will boot fine (without the problem above), but I don't 
do much Minix on that machine because the hard disk is a 
SCSI which means it won't work (yet).

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