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From: Jim.Wegman@rochgte.fidonet.org (Jim Wegman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Booting MINIX
Message-ID: <296.27D9E467@rochgte.fidonet.org>
Date: 10 Mar 91 04:25:20 GMT
Organization: The Source for Source BBS, Rochester, NY (716-328-3405)
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I just purchased PC MINIX 1.5 and I am in desparate need of help to gget it up and running.

My system consists of a Hyundai 16TE XT Compatible, 640K, 2 360K ffloppies, a 65M Seagate ST277R1 RLL hard drive with a Seagate ST11R RLL controller, VGA.

With my hard drive controller attached to the system, MINIX will nnot boot with any of the MINIX boot disks ( giving the message ''Boot failed. Press any key to reboot.' ).

With the hard drive controller removed from the system, MINIX will bboot and run with all all boot disks except the universal boot disk.

I understand that, as purchased, MINIX does not support RLL drives because of the increased number of sectors per track.  Would this discreprency cause the system not to boot with the hard drive ppresent?  I was going to change sectors per track value in the mminix/config.h file and rebuild the system, but with only 2 360K ffloppy drives, I can't even decompress the kernel source archives,nno less compile them!

Does anyone know if rebuilding the system in this way might even help,aand if so, how can it be done with only 2 360k drives?

Also, if indeed there's no hope in this solution, does anyone know oof any RLL disk controllers that might work with my system?

I am desparately in need of help! Any would be tremendously aappreciated!

Thanx in advance,
     Jim








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