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From: perera@athena.cs.uga.edu (Niranjan Perera)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Need help with ibm demo disk....
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.160201.14782@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 16:02:01 GMT
Sender: perera@athena.cs.uga.edu (Niranjan Perera)
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Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
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Greetings,

Could one of you kind folks help me out on this please..

I downloaded the demo_dsk.ibm and rawrite.exe on to a Zenith.
Followed the instructions in the README file, and started Minix up.
It starts up with the disk drive "making a weird noise". Then I get the
menu to which I press the "=" key. Here is where the problem starts I get
the following message

"kernel panic: cant read partition table of winchester 0"
"press key to reboot"

If this is any help I am trying to boot the demo disk on a Zenith
Data Systems ZF-158-42 model ( 640k, two 5.25 360k drives ).

Please be kind enough to email me any solutions or suggestions 
you may have.

thank you

- niranjan
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Niranjan Perera  
University Of Georgia, Athens   Email: perera@athena.cs.uga.edu
"Programmers are playwriters. Computers are lousy actors." -fortune