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From: johan@nlgvax.UUCP (Johan Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX-ST: Can't boot MINIX from .IMG file after using FIXKEYS
Message-ID: <214@nlgvax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 89 13:56:09 GMT
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Reply-To: johan@nlgvax.UUCP (Johan Stevenson)
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In article <9203@louie.udel.EDU> PKP88%DMSWWU1A.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Rainer Perske) writes:
>I've run  into an installation problem  with MINIX-ST: I want  to start
>MINIX from TOS w/o using a  floppy disk. I followed the instructions in
>the manual  to create MINIX.IMG  on my hard  disk. There is  no problem
>starting MINIX this way if (and only if) I've created MINIX.IMG from an
>unchanged boot disk. But I have a german keyboard, so I ran FIXKEYS.PRG
>on a copy  of my boot disk.  If I create a MINIX.IMG  from this changed
>boot disk,  MINIX.PRG stops  with a  message: minix.img:  wrong format.

Most likely problem is that the copy of your floppy is not right.
Several TOS copy programs manipulate the information in sector 0
while making a copy.
Use a copy program that does not modify the contents of any bit
in any byte of any of the 720 sectors!
For instance, use RFLOP.PRG and WFLOP.PRG found on 08.TOS, as
documented in the accompanying leaflet.
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Johan W. Stevenson	johan@pcg.philips.nl		Philips Research