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From: jack@csmunix.larc.nasa.gov (Jack Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: MINIX-ST: Can't boot MINIX from .IMG
Message-ID: <9222@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 20 Feb 89 21:51:41 GMT
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I don't think the problem is with using FIXKEYS. I have had the same 
problem with out using FIXKEYS. In my analysis, the booting program 
will never work with a correct .IMG file. The error is generated
when, if I calculated the address right, the 16 bit word located
at offset 508 ( wp[-2] ) is not zero or when the 16 bit word
at offset 506 ( wp[-3] ) does not equal the 16 bit word at offset 
510 ( wp[-1] ). It appears that wp[-1] is a check sum and
wp[-3] is the start of the data segment. I can not see
how these words would ever be equal. I have concluded that
the MINIX.PRG is the not coded correctly. I have go any further
into trying to correct the problem since it is just as easy to
boot the system from floppy.