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From: raymond@cs.vu.nl (Raymond Michiels)
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Subject: Re: MINIX on the Amiga...
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Date: 26 Sep 90 07:04:16 GMT
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guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com (W. John Guineau) writes:

>Surely *someone* has tried booting Minix on a 3000 or 2500/30? 

>Does it boot? Does it only crash on exceptions (which means it may be
>possible to provide a development environment to fix/recompile it!)

As far as I know AmigaMINIX does not boot on a 3000. Unfortunately I have
never even SEEN an Amiga > 2000... If you don't have a 68000 it should
be relatively easy to fix (start with the "ammpx.s" file). This would
be a nice way to get acquainted with the AmigaMINIX kernel :-)

>|> Amiga Minix is started from s:startup-sequence, [...]

>That's interesting Does Minix use any info from AmigaDOS boot? Like the 
>autoconfig device list? The memory lists? Will ADDMEMed memory from the
>startup-sequence be seen by Minix?

Yes, No, Yes, Yes.

	-Raymond.