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From: geert@ahds.UUCP (Geert W.T. Jonkheer CCS/TS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Booting minix (st) from a double sided floppy drive?
Message-ID: <1961@ahds.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 91 06:58:18 GMT
Organization: Ahold NV, Zaandam, Netherlands, EEC
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When i was making a new root floppy to boot from (i start from floppies
and then mount my hard disk partition), it occurred to me that
minix always want that the root floppy is formatted as single sided and 
that it also mounts it as being single sided.

If you forget this, like i did, and mount this floppy as a double sided
disk (/dev/dd?) and you save something on the so mounted disk, you 
can't boot from this disk any longer. Minix does save the data on
the single sided disk and it seems that this goes well, but when
you want to boot from it the next time you are using minix you will
get a sig=??? pid = ??? at startup time.
 
What i want to know is, is there a way to tell minix at startup to
boot from a double sided floppy and not generally assume that 
you are using a single sided drive. Can minix automatically
select or see, if a single or a double sided disk is in the drive.
How to tell this to minix.

I prefer the last option. Then you have no problems at all.
 
Thanks in advance.

Geert.

PS: By the way, i am using minix version 1.5.10.

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