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From: kjb@cs.vu.nl (Kees J Bot)
Subject: Re: Hmm.. There's something wrong...
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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 09:23:41 GMT
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m-13904@mailbox.swipnet.se (Erik Sintorn) writes:

>I have had it confirmed that I should be able to run MINIX on my 
>8086 with 640k of RAM.
>But I've tried it out on THREE IBM PS/1 8086.
>And it won't work on anyone of them.

The keyboard driver uses a different interrupt and I/O ports for some
8086 based PS/2 models.  Maybe it isn't, or should not, be doing this
for those PS/1's.

You can influence the kernel's idea of what kind of machine it is
dealing with with the "bus" boot variable.  Try if this works:

	[ESC]
	bus=xt
	boot

If this doesn't work then try 'bus=ps'.

(I really have to add the words "may work", and "some models" to the
usage(8) manual close to the word "PS/2".  The problem with IBM is that
they are not IBM compatible.)
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	                        Kees J. Bot  (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
	              Systems Programmer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
