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From: tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix-386 HELP!!
Message-ID: <43516@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 90 19:06:20 GMT
References: <37483@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Reply-To: tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer)
Organization: Computer Consoles, Inc., An STC Icon, Rochester, NY
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In article <37483@nigel.ee.udel.edu> obrien@torolab2.iinus1.ibm.com (Kevin O'Brien) writes:
>Peter Holzer says,
>>load the kernel, mm, fs and init. After this it said "Starting
>>Minix", cleared the screen, told me how much memory the computer
>>has, Minix needs, etc. and then -- nothing.
>
>I also had this problem. After spending some time with db, and putting
>print statements in fs and mm, I discovered that init was using more
>stack space than the 0x1c bytes that INIT_STK (I think thats the name)
>was defined as.

I had a similar problem, mine was that in non-386 mode I was using the
virtual console version (with a /etc/ttys defined for this) and I
stoo-pidly copied over the files from my /etc directory (replacing the
non-386 executables with 386 executables, of course).  I fixed this
file, booted like a champ, I'm now cruising.

FYI, I'm using the NEATsx motherboard (386sx at 16 Mhz), 2 Meg of SIPP
memory, Everex EV-332 hard/floppy controller, 2 serial ports, CGA graphics
(gotta replace this).  I've since gotten virtual consoles to work, and I've
compiled U-Mail, W-Mail, and Microwalt UUCP (with my mods, which I should
send back One Of These Days...).  If anything the system is more reliable
that the non-386 version...
-- 
Thomas V. Frauenhofer, WA2YYW, tvf@cci.com   | Q: What did the mortuary staff sing
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tvf@frau.UUCP                                | A: See the blazing Yul before us!
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