Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!metro!usage.csd.unsw.oz.au!ccadfa!wkt
From: wkt@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Can't build minix-386 with more than 55 buffers
Message-ID: <2139@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au>
Date: 14 Dec 90 00:50:53 GMT
References: <565@phcoms.seri.philips.nl>
Organization: Computer Centre, University College, UNSW, ADFA, Canberra, Australia
Lines: 28

In atricle <565@phcoms.seri.philips.nl>, (Graham Jolley) writes:

> I am having a problem building minix-386 with more than
> about 55 buffers. 
> I am using the 'normal' build procedure NOT shoelace.

From memory (and Bruce will definitely know), you must make a 32-bit
version of build, and then build an image using it. Something in build
stops it from working as a 16-bit binary.

The procedure:

	Under 16-bit mode, make the 32-bit kernel with 30 buffers
	Boot the 32-bit kernel
	Compile build as a 32-bit binary
	Recompile the kernel using 300 :-) buffers
	Using the new build, build a new image (keep the old one!)
	Boot the new 32-bit kernel.

I have a 32-bit kernel using this method (and no Shoelace as yet), and
it works fine!



-- 
 Warren Toomey VK1XWT, about to Appdiff
Deep in the bowels of ADFA Comp Science.
            `TCP/IP? Really?!'