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From: hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Minix-386 HELP!!
Keywords: Correct CRCs, Init doesn't start.
Message-ID: <2176@tuvie>
Date: 27 Nov 90 10:05:03 GMT
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Hi, Minix-Gurus!

Last Weekend I tried to install Bruce Evans Minix-386 patches. 
I followed John Nall's tutorial step by step, checked the CRCs
which all matched and came finally to the point of making a
bootable disk with shoelace. 

When I booted the disk, shoelace printed its sign on the screen,
the parameters, its own load address and segment sizes and,
while making horrible noises with my disk drive continued to
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.

The kernel is obviously running, because I get characters I type
echoed, but I do not get a login prompt. When I type F1, all the
tasks and MM and FS (both waiting for ANY) are displayed, but no
init! 

There are three clues that may point to the error though I don't
yet know how (or else I wouldn't post this):

1. John wrote in his tutorial that the linker complained about
   duplicates at the kernel and fs, but he said nothing about
   init. Yet I get some duplicates with init.

2. The base addresses that shoelace displays and those I get by
   pressing F1 don't match. Shoelace says the MM is loaded at 
   1C100 (112.25k) and FS at 2EC00 (187k), but with F1 I get 87k
   for MM and 112k for FS.

3. When I get into shoelace's command interpreter and tell it to
   use /dev/ram as root partition, FS panicks with the message:
   'cannot report to MM' (That may be because I have not enough
   memory for a 1.2Meg RAM disk, it would leave only 400k for
   Minix and programs)


Has anybody had similar problems and solved them? 
Any ideas what could be wrong are welcome.

Thanx in advance,
	Peter.
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