Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!mmdf
From: Pat_Barron@transarc.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: ST Minix with Supra hard drive
Message-ID: <38052@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: 4 Dec 90 08:05:26 GMT
Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.edu
Lines: 17

Well, I've solved part of my own problem - the part about not being able
to boot Minix from floppy.  It turns out that, once you boot from the
hard disk, I guess the SUPBOOT.SYS program rewires the RESET interrupt vector,
and pressing the reset button no longer causes the "normal" thing to occur.
I can boot Minix just fine from floppy if I power-cycle the machine first.

I still can not get Minix to actually boot up completely, though - the 10.BOOT
disk boots, sometimes prints the Minix banner message, and immediately gives
"Kernel Panic: disk task got message from -1" (I messed up the wording of
the error message in my previous message).  Someone suggested applying a patch
that The Minix Centre was distributing for ST Minix and the Supra hard drive,
but I've looked at my sources, and the patch is already installed.  This, BTW,
is ST Minix version 1.1.

Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.

--Pat.