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From: jnall%FSU.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (John Nall 904-644-5241)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Gettin' there with Evans stuff...
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Date: 10 Jun 89 22:14:25 GMT
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OK...I've spent the last 9 hours putting in all of the changes of
the Bruce Evans 286 Protected Mode stuff (and backing up my present
configuration, of course.  OF COURSE!!) At this time, it seems to
work, with two minor problems, which I think are related:

  (1)  If I put "/usr/bin/date `readclock` </dev/tty" in my
( /etc/rc file, it locks the system up tight.  However,
( using the old, reliable "/usr/bin/date -q </dev/tty"
( works fine.
  (2)  I was using 384 (mkfs /dev/hd3 384) as the size of my root
( partition before, so that it would load into the 384K of
( extended memory that I have.  This works fine with MINIX286.
( But since the partition is actually 912K, I decided to do a
( mkfs /dev/hd3 912 on it, copy the root from floppy, and boot
( up MINIX286.  Hangs the same way as #1 above (symptoms are
( absolute refusal to accept any keyboard input, including
( ctrl-alt-del).

I think these may be related, and am going to try to gun them out.
But if someone already knows the answer, I'm sure not too proud to
accept suggestions......e-mail or public, whichever is your pleasure.

BTW
     Add to the list of (a) don't tug on superman's cape, (b) don't
spit in the wind, (c) don't fool around with the lone ranger. and
(d) don't mess with Jim one more:

(   don't argue with Henry Spencer.

John Nall
Computer Science Department
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
nall@nu.cs.fsu.edu  (Arpa/Internet)