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From: jcs@chinet.UUCP (John C. Sucilla)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: The adventures of MINIX on the AT&T PC6300
Message-ID: <876@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Apr-87 18:32:14 EST
Article-I.D.: chinet.876
Posted: Sun Apr 19 18:32:14 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 21-Apr-87 01:16:45 EST
Organization: Chinet, Chicago Ill.
Lines: 39
Keywords: floppies incompatible kernel build


Well, I just spent 3 days recompiling the kernel with Don Dugger's
Z150 HD fix that was recently posted. I used his code because the 
symptoms were so similar to mine.

I removed my HD and reinstalled my second floppy to make life easier
recompiling the kernel.

I kept getting real weird errors from the compiler and optimizer.
Errors like:
	error on line 1136 (%*s): Unknown instruction byte
	error on line 1136 (%*s): label 8 multiple defined
	"tty.c", line 810: to undefined.

I even ran into 2 or 3 file system panics after a simple "rm file".

I finally realized that when it decided to blow up it took the source
file I was compiling with it. I found strange lines in my previously
good source that look like something you would find in a compressed
.s file. Once I finally got the kernel rebuilt, it took three tries
running build before I got a disk that would boot and recognize my
root file system as genuine root. Once up on the new kernel, mkfs
was tried on the hard disk again. Guess what. I got the same old
hard disk wont reset, cant write blah blah blah....

Moral of story: Minix and the AT&T PC6300's floppies are marginal!!!
                You aint gonna build Minix on one of these machines.
		At least, not on mine anyway...

Any other 6300 owners had better luck?
Anybody got a pre-compiled kernel hacked for the WD1002S-WX2 they 
could uuto to me (beg, beg)? If I could reliably talk to my hard
drive it wouldnt be so painful working on the floppy driver.....

-- 
  John "C". Sucilla  Chinet - Chicago, Illinois
  ...ihnp4!chinet!jcs

  Don't let reality stop you.....