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From: u8acb@ohm.york.ac.uk (+Alex Barclay)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX on Hyundai 386SX At-clone
Message-ID: <1991Jun22.132009.4070@ohm.york.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Jun 91 13:20:09 GMT
References: <1991Jun21.192618.3446@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK
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In <1991Jun21.192618.3446@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> cflatter@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Chris Flatters) writes:

>The problem:
>   MINIX refuses to boot from the distribution floppy.  The copyright
>   message appears but the drive heads then get driven into the stops
>   and back again.  An error message a reboot is attempted.  This
>   repeats until I hit the reset switch & pull the floppy out.

Try turning the clock speed down. My machine, a 386SX running at 16 or 8MHz
won't boot Minix 1.2 unless the clock is running aat 8MHz. The problem
appears to be in kernel/floppy.c but I need to work out the drive timings
yet to fix the problem.

		Good Luck,
			Alex.
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