Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!james_jim_woomer
From: james_jim_woomer@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Problem with pr command on ATARI
Message-ID: <11169@cup.portal.com>
Date: 11 Nov 88 03:56:01 GMT
References: <5257@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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<I have had the same problem with booting MINIX from an image file.
<I have tried booting from floppys with the same error message.
<My orignal coclusion was that the problem was with the BMS controler
<I have rather that an Atari.

I haven't really spent much time tracing the source of the problem, Although
when I stopped fooling with it my feeling - it was copying the minix.img
from TOS.  I finally managed a work-around by using the minix command dd to
copy the image from the boot diskette.  What ever caused the problem messed 
up the n or the n-2 value in the file.  The minix.prg looks to see if they 
are the same and after copying from TOS their not.   Anyway its well worth 
whatever trouble to be able to boot from TOS.

jim woomer