Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ssbell!mcmi!hdr!unocss!mlewis
From: mlewis@unocss.UUCP (Marcus S. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Can't boot Minix
Keywords: Minix, Tandy
Message-ID: <659@unocss.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 89 02:15:45 GMT
Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha
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I am a newcomer to this group, and I have been plowing through 47 pages of
news articles, to no avail.  I have a friend who has no access to USENET
who just bought Minix 1.2 and he can't boot it on a Tandy 1000 EX.
I booted it on a Compaq 286 with no problems (that's a slick OS!) but when
he tries on his machine, he gets a repeating message to the effect that
the Winchester is getting a message from -1, the screen gets trashed and the
drive light never goes out.  It announces the Ram disk has been loaded, 
please insert the next disk, and that's the end of that. No further dialog
withthe machine is possible until it is rebooted with MS-DOS.

Say, pray tell, what is happening here?  I have the text book, he has the
manual, and we are going to be going through the sources, but there's a lot
of code there, and we are not sure where to start.

The EX runs EVERYTHING, except probably Minix, I suppose.  He's a bit upset,
for which I can't blame him.  Any help would be vastly appreciated.

Marc Lewis