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From: gpatapis@macadam.tmc.edu (George Patapis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: ls on 386.  Can't get it to work !!
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Date: 28 Jan 91 04:19:24 GMT
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Organization: Macquarie University, School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics
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Hi all,
	I have just recently finished the main part of creating Minix386.
I have created it on just one disk which can boot up from drive A and copy 
the file system to ram to serve as the root file system.  To do this I had 
to add a few lines to the config file like which is the rootdevice,  how 
large and things like that.   Apparently I cannot get the ls command to work!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Other commands like df cat ln work without a hassle.  The
ls though saids cannot execute!!!!!!!!!!

	I have checked my path,  permissions and the disk itself for any 
bad blocks.  Nothing!  When I reset the config file to its initial mode where
it uses drive A as the root device and does not use a RAM disk ls works fine!!
What on earth can be happening????   

Any advice would be more than greatly appreciated.  What can be so special 
with the ls command?  

I made the disk following John's instructions and after reading the 
documentation for Shoelace and the likes.  Just to be sure that ls was made
correctly I redid it but still no change.  Help.

					george patapis
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