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From: D.Heale@ee.surrey.ac.uk (David Charles Heale)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Demo disk on Amstrad PPC512
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Date: 14 Jun 91 09:52:41 GMT
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	I have been attempting to run the Minix 1.5 demo disc recently
posted on comp.binaries.ibm.pc on an Amstrad PPC512 unsuccessfully. When I
press = or u to start minix the error message given is:
Nonmaskable interrupt
process number -9, pc=0x0060:0x00000A55
Kernel panic: exception in kernel,mm or fs

	The machine has a V30 cpu, 512K RAM, two 720k 3.5" discs and an LCD
CGA display. The technical manual indicates that NMI can be caused by RAM 
parity errors, the 8087 (not fitted) or the expansion bus I/OCHCK ( nothing
connected to the bus).and that it is disabled on reset. 

	The same disc immage will run on a 386 machine with 1M ram from a
1.2Mbyte but as it has a 5.25" drive A I cannot try the same disc on it. I
have tried writing the boot disc for the Amstrad on both machines and using
a root file system on a separate disc but this does not make and difference.

	If anyone has any information about this proplem, or if minix will
run on the PPC512 at all please could you let me know.

			Thanks,
	
		David Heale.