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From: bob@rancor.UUCP (Bob Willcox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Running minix 1.5 demo disk on AT clone
Message-ID: <303@rancor.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 91 03:39:11 GMT
Organization: Bob's Place, Austin TX
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I just got a copy of the minix demo disk (from ftp.cs.vu.nl, CRC
checked ok) and booted it on my IBM 286 AT clone and have run into some
trouble.  It boot okay; prompts for the keyboard type, date & time,
then login.  This is where the trouble begins.  After keying in "root"
it usally just sits there with no response, echoes characters but seems
to ignore them.  Hitting Ctl-D will cause it to prompt for password
then complain about invalid login.  After that, hitting enter will
cause it to output an entire line of

login: login: login: login: ...

A couple of times (exactly twice, actually) it has apparently
successfully logged me in, but then nothing works.  The first time the
command "ls -l" failed with complaints of it being too complex.  The
second time the command "ls -l /bin" locked the system up.

Anybody have any ideas what could be wrong?  Am I simply unfortunate
enough to have an insufficiently compatible clone that will not work
with minix?

Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

P.S.: The system that I am trying to run this on is a 16mHz 286 with 2mb
of memory and AMI BIOS.  The motherboard is of Tiawan manufacture.  Runs
MSDOS fine (of course).

Thanks,
-- 
Bob Willcox             ...!{rutgers|ames}!cs.utexas.edu!romp!rancor!bob
Phone: 512 258-4224