Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: Anton Heinsbroek Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: HELP -with making boot disk-xt clone-Seagate 238-RRL Message-ID: <51472@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 22 Apr 91 06:11:23 GMT Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.edu Lines: 27 Ed Rodda posed the question: > > I have a xt clone c/w a 32M Seagate 238R hard drive configured as RRL. > All my attempts to use xt_wini.c to produce a bootable disk have failed. > Would someone please e-mail me the changes to config.h and xt_wini.c to > make this work. > > I am assuming that I am doing something wrong, however, if somebody has > discovered that it is necessary to hard code xt_wini, then I would > appreciate that info. This probably was a minix topic around ver. 1.0. > > ... left out something > I remember that in version 1.3 the hard-disk size had been hard coded to some 10 Mb (via the number of cylinders). So I advise you to have a look inside xt_wini.c. The driver at_wini.c reads data concerning cylinders, sectors per track, etc. from a location in memory filled by the BIOS at startup (eventually read from the CMOS ram) and is therefore more flexible. Hope this is of any use to you, Anton Heinsbroek