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From: kjb@cs.vu.nl (Kees J Bot)
Subject: Re: Need help with Toshiba 286 Laptop
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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:18:31 GMT
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erlingp@stud.cs.uit.no (Erling Paulsen) writes:

>I have an old Toshiba 286 laptop with 1MB RAM and 40MB HD. I downloaded
>the i86 version 1.7.2 of minix. The problem is that when "part" starts to
>check out the HD it cannot read or find it. The error goes something like
>this: 
>	"hd0-probe failed." 

"at-hd0: probe failed" is a message from the AT/IDE disk driver.  It
means that the driver cannot find a AT style disk controller.

Try again with the Boot Monitor setting 'hd=bios'.  This will make Minix
use the generic hard disk driver that uses the BIOS like DOS does,
except that Minix has to jump in and out of protected mode.
--
	                        Kees J. Bot  (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
	              Systems Programmer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
