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From: bert@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org (Bert Laverman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix on Atari Mega STe?
Message-ID: <91052610067@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org>
Date: 26 May 91 09:47:47 GMT
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msdloem@cs.vu.nl (Loemban tobing Msd) wrote:
> There's something strange with my Mega STE4 and Minix. When I boot minix
> from a boot diskette, Single or Double sided, as soon as the Ram Disk is
> loaded, it Gives a Signal 11 at the start of INIT, and does nothing.
> However, this doesn't occur when I boot the same minix image using
> MINIX.PRG. BTW, When I use MINIX.PRG and boot minix after the desktop
> has come up, I get 50000 dhrystones in 44 sec. On my old ST in +/- 78 sec.
This looks like what Cristoph said: when booting, you get 8MHz, but in
TOS the switch is made to 16MHz, so starting Minix there will give you
the fast Minix.

> When I use MINIX on my Mega STE, I can't use CTRL-ALT-DEL to reset. I have
> to turn off the switch, and turn it back on again. Even the Reset-button
> doesn't work properly.
This is a bug in Minix, and occurs with 'normal' STs as well. If you
use MINIX.PRG, re-booting fails. My guess is that somebody has been too
cautious in re-loading vectors during Minix boot.

Greetings, Bert

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