At 09:42 AM 7/20/99 +0100, Luke (boo) Farrar wrote:
>On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Dan Olson wrote:
>> A few of us had this exact same problem on PS/2 machines, and I believe
>> the problem ended up not being the disk drive but rather the keyboard not
>> being detected. A simple test, if you can do it, would be to try the
>> combo boot/root image, and see if it hangs or not. Sence you are using
>> 5.25" disks (right?) I take it you don't have a PS/2 as they came with
>> 720k drives. I believe the combo image requires at least 720k disk space,
>> so if you have a machine that can read a 720k disk, it may be a good test.
>> Hope this helps, good luck.
>>
>
>I just tried it and found the same thing on a ps2. It's the keyboard that
>it has a problem with. With the comb image it mounts the root disk fine,
>runs init fine, then you can't login because of the keyboard.
>
OK, I tried booting from the 720k disk image on my P-120. It works fine.
Surprisingly, it uses a PS/2 style keyboard (with the narrow mini-DIM
connector). I tried RaWriting the 360k images to 2 other disks I found and
it still doesn't work on the XT clone (with the fat DIN keyboard connector)
I really can't diagnose what's going on here, since I'm a ChemEng by
training and don't know the first thing about OS design. I do remember
getting to log in on the same machine back when the version number was
something like 0.68. so I think the machine is OK. I don't even have
access to a Linux machine at work to make new images myself. I'm just
hoping to put some of the old 8086/8 and 80286 machines back to work, and
the limit of my contributions to the project is trying to use the new
images and letting the list know when something isn't working for me.
Thanks,
Jeff
