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From: ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix-386 and 1.44M boot disk don't mix
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.142730.11342@dsuvax.uucp>
Date: 28 Jan 91 14:27:30 GMT
References: <1991Jan27.222238.5886@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Dakota State University
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In <1991Jan27.222238.5886@agate.berkeley.edu> dc@caveat.berkeley.edu (Dave Cottingham) writes:

>I posted here recently asking (begging, really) for help getting
>Minix-386 to boot.  I'd like to thank all the folks that responded
>with helpful advice, and the winning entry goes to Eric J. Lu who
>suggested that there might be a problem with Minix-386 reading a 1.44M
>floppy.  So I copied my boot disk onto a 1.2M floppy, swapped the
>cables in my box to make that the A: drive, and voila, it came right
>up.  Still haven't figured out how to get it to read a 1.44M floppy,
>but the major problem is solved.

You need a bootblok that knows how to read 1.44M disks.  I posted
a new bootblok.s about two weeks ago that knows how to do this.

Please write if you need it.

> - Dave Cottingham
>   dc@caveat.berkeley.edu
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