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From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: DOSMerge/286 and Microport problem
Message-ID: <207@splut.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 14:09:51 EST
Article-I.D.: splut.207
Posted: Sun Oct 25 14:09:51 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Oct-87 05:35:41 EST
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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Keywords: hangs the system on installation

I just got (finally!) DOSMerge/286 for my Microport SV/AT. (Yes, I know this
should go into comp.unix.unix-at, but it hasn't been newgroup'ed here.) I
run an Everex/AT Plus System 1800A, at 10 MHZ/1 wait state. I'm currently
using SV/AT 2.2.1L, with 2.3 on order (after paying Microport's $99 yearly
upgrade fee :-( after discovering that their single upgrade fee went from
$25 [nominal, and therefore acceptable] to $60 [a blatant ripoff]).

I tried to get Merge running, after reading the note in the release notes
that said that you didn't need to have 2.3 running to run Merge. OK, fine. I
'installit' the package, and run /usr/lib/merge/dosinstall, with a vanilla
PC/DOS 3.2 disk. I get to the point where it reboots off the floppy, and
tells me that bootsnap is complete; I then reboot, with the new kernel in
place. At the point in the boot where it should tell me 'drive 1 type = 2;
drive 2 type = 10', it hangs.

Is my problem a bug in Merge, or an incompatibility with my system's Everex
disk controller, or that my clock is running too fast? I can't easily run my
system at 6 MHz to remove that possibility, as the clock speed on the 1800A
is set by changing the crystal, and I only have 16 and 20 MHz crystals. I
haven't tried borrowing a Western Digital controller board. If I rename the
kernel files so that the old 2.2.1L kernel is active, the system boots fine.

I'm gonna call Microport tomorrow, but I thought I'd draw upon the massive
expertise available on here as well, especially since I have seen others
comment on the Merge product. (Almost forgot: Merge is the production 1.3.0
release.)

Thanks for the help.

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