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From: fvkampen@cs.vu.nl (Florentijn van Kampen)
Subject: Re: Minimum system to run Minix?
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v153286@cc.tut.fi (Ville Vainio) writes:

>erlingp@stud.cs.uit.no (Erling Paulsen) writes:

>>According to the things I read about minix u should be able to install
>>the tiny version on a xt i.e. 8088 with 640K RAM and 360K floppy.
>>
>>Now - that's a power setup.. :)

>Hmm... I tried it, but when I tried to boot it from hd, it gave "probe
>failed.. at-hd0" or something similar.  The system itself seemed to
>run on my machine, at least the tiny version installation program.

>Help, anyone?  My machine is Amstrad pc 2086, with 720kb floppy and
>30Mb hdd... 640kb mem, svga display (not that it matters).  Did I do
>something wrong, or is it just an incompability problem?

>-- 

The problem is, that Minix tries to address the at-harddisk.
Your machine probably does not have an at-compatible hard disk.
When in the bootmonitor, try hd=bios. This should work...

	Florentijn van Kampen
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