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From: pa1343@sdcc15.UUCP (pa1343)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: fsck.c garbled and system won't boot etc.
Summary: MINIX won't boot, etc (new developments)
Keywords: fsck, boot, Harddisk as root file system (vs. Ramdisk)
Message-ID: <642@sdcc15.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 88 03:49:51 GMT
References: <638@sdcc15.UUCP>
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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In article <638@sdcc15.UUCP>, pa1343@sdcc15.UUCP (pa1343) writes:
> Sorry my name is not on From: line.  The tyrants here won't let me
> have my name in the /etc/passwd file.  Anyway, it's:
> John J. Marco
> Internet: pa1343@iugrad2.ucsd.edu
> uucp: not sure, possibly use the "Path " line above, or as far as I
> know, the best path I know is:
> ~~~~~~!nosc!ucsd!iugrad2!pa1343
> 
Yep, it's me again.  I tried a few new things with minix and it all
failed to get MINIX 1.3 to Boot.

> Hall distribution MINIX 1.2 and I could not get the cdiffs for
> fsck to work.  I tried over several times with fsck.c and all of 

I hand patched the new fsck  (missing some lines though).
It does not help the boot situation, but seems to work fine.
The kernel , mm, tty, IDLE processes are running by a press of 
the <F1> key, but only TTY and IDLE are using CPU cycles.

here is the crash situation:
I boot the computer, an d press '=' at the fsck prompt (I have the
v1.2 P-H supplied root file system in drive 0)  The floppy light 
goes on and nothing happens.  No disk seeks, nothing.  Just 
IDLE for both the floppy and winchester processes.

> Finally, to the point of the harddisk root file system issue.  I

I will try to use the hard disk pathches from 1.2.  If I do, I will
post diffs.   There is no guarantee of this.  (I still can't even
get the @%!* kernel to boot and read the ramdisk into memory. :-( )
 
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| John J. Marco      	  |                   OS      PS    |
| pa1343@iugrad2.ucsd.edu | OS/2 on PS/2:    ---- on ----   |
| ee52alis@ieng2.ucsd.edu |		       2       2    |
| 	      		  | DOS on PC...<EOT>		    |
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