Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: "Volker A. Brandt" Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Booting minix (st) from a double sided floppy drive? Message-ID: <51610@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 23 Apr 91 09:01:08 GMT Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.edu Lines: 22 Hello! "Geert W.T. Jonkheer CCS/TS" says: > Sorry, I forgot to mention, that it is not the boot floppy thats > causing the problem, but it's the root floppy. When I started up > Minix and minix askes for the root floppy it wants the root floppy > to be single sided (no matter what). When you are mounting > this floppy as double sided (/dev/dd0) and put something on it, > data will be corrupted the next time the system is loaded > from the root floppy. All I want to do is that minix loads > the root partion from a double sided disk or that minix > automatically sees the differences between single or double > sided disks as TOS sees it. What device are you specifying when MINIX-ST asks you for the root disk? Have you tried 2,8? Don't just press return... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bitnet: UNM409@DBNRHRZ1 Volker A. Brandt UUCP: ...!unido!DBNRHRZ1.bitnet!unm409 Angewandte Mathematik ARPAnet: UNM409%DBNRHRZ1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Bonn, Germany)