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From: grundy@rtf.bt.co.uk (Martin Grundy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Memory manager panic: problem & what does minix 386 offer
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.092509.12452@rtf.bt.co.uk>
Date: 8 Feb 91 09:25:09 GMT
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In article <43907@nigel.ee.udel.edu> KHATUKA%ROSEVC.Rose-Hulman.Edu@uicvm.uic.edu (Aditya Khatuka) writes:
>Hi,
>
>        I have installed minix 1.5 on a Zenith Z386/25 with 150MB hard drive
>and 640K + 1024 K entended memory. My partation 3 ( approx 2 MB) contains the
>ram disk image while partition 2 is for the rest of the stuff.
>        I used the command
>/etc/setup_root /dev/hd3 512 113903 12500 2016 22680
>                          |    |      |    |     |
>                         ram   |    minix  |    minix - (for future use!)
> tried other sizes too <--|   dos        ram image
>
>        for creating root file system.
(rest deleted)

Hi,

I think your problem may be that your blocksize spec for hd3 in the
/etc/setup_root should be 512 instead of 2016. Otherwise, when minix
tries to load the ram disk off /dev/hd3, it tries to load 2016 blocks and you
haven't got that much memory !

Try:
	/etc/setup_root /dev/hd3 512 113903 12500 512 22680

 (I also set my dos partition size to 0. It seems to work).


I am not too sure without looking, whether /etc/setup_root performs
the mkfs for /dev/hd3; if it doesn't, then you have to "mkfs /dev/hd3 512"
beforehand, to make a 512k filesystem on /dev/hd3.

I am sorry but I don't any info on mx386; I am about to try it myself !

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