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- From: fpp@minor.UUCP (Frank Pursel)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Distribution: world
- Subject: Partial solutions: getting 1.6.16 upgrade working on PC
- Keywords: MINIX, upgrade
- Message-ID: <92111923@minor.UUCP>
- Organization: UUCP
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 23:47:40 +0100
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- Hey Guys and Gals,
-
- The responses to my last cry for help were heard and resulted in success!
- The reason 'build' failed and couldn't find the magic numbers was that
- I had incorrectly modified the Makefiles for mm, fs, and init to not
- link in 'head.o'. The new compiler does not install a copy of head.o
- when set up. You must recompile the old
- 'head.s' file using 'sconv' and 'as'. Now build works like a champ.
-
- I'm not out of the woods yet though. I've made an image disk and loaded
- the parts onto a shoelace disk. Either way 1.6.16 crashes during intialization.
- Menu works fine. Under shoelace I get a constantly running floppy drive and
- a flashing white cursor at the lower left corner of the screen. With the
- image disk, I get stopped drives and a flashing white cursor at the lower
- left screen corner. I guess it's time to start reading code!
-
- Thanks again for the help on the previous problem. I will keep posting
- solutions as I figure them out.
-
- Frank Pursel peora!jwt!minor!fpp
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