Re: [MiNT] INIT : file not found

[josephus <dogbird@earthlink.net>]

Jean-Luc CECCOLI wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Well, it would very difficult for me to tell what was in the cnf file,
> as my disk is totally unreadable now. I think it just was dying. And,
> now, it's just dead.
> I hesitate between using another disk of the same capacity (20 GB), or
> using one of 40 GB.
> There are too few letters available for partitions, and I never could
> manage to use drives 0 to 3 (or 6?) that are theorically allowed by
> HD-Driver.
> Z: is my SCSI streamer,
> Y: is SCSI CD burner
> X: is my IDE DVD burner (under MagiC!, I could use B: for it, but I
> never could under MiNT)
> W: for some unknown reason, this letter is allocated to a drive that I
> can't access and whose partition doesn't exist (checked under HD-Dr)
> U: is the system reserved (called Universal ?) drive
> R: is my LNX 1GB MiNT partition
> Q: is a 4 GB F32 partition which contains all my zipped files
> P: down to C: are my working partitions (data and programs).
> With more letters available for partitions, I could plug a second drive
> and directly backup the main one once or twice a week - much faster than
> my streamer that I only use once a month -.
> Moreover, we sonn will have 2 more IDE ports to connect drives that will
> not be accessable due to not enough letters...
> Anyway, back to the question :
> 1- 20 GB drive with 20x1GB or
> 2- 40 GB drive with 1x or 2x 4GB F32 (the max TOS 4.04 can access, IIRC),
> 1x 4 or 8 GB LNX partition for MiNT and all others 1 GB partitions
> for TOS.
> Not to mention the 80 GB drive that is too big for any Atari system...
>
> Regards,
>
> J.-Luc
>
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> > Message du 05/04/10 00:14
> > De : "Stefan Niestegge" 
> > A : 
> > Copie à : mint@lists.fishpool.fi
> > Objet : Re: [MiNT] INIT : file not found
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > i had that lately, too. Somehow i managed to delete a few files in 
> > C:/mint/1-16-cur folder, and ext2fs.xif was one of them.
> > perhaps it helps to check that file.
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Beetle
> >
> > Miro Kropacek schrieb:
> >    
> >
> > > What about looking for INIT= directive in mint.cnf and looking for 
> > > what's not found? ;)
> > >
> > > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Jean-Luc CECCOLI 
> > >      
> > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > >        
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > That's what I get when trying to start MiNT.
> > > What can it be ?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > J.-Luc
> > >
> > >
> > >      
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then somebody should write a driver to allow us to USE an 80g  disk.  in 
LINUX and Windows  80g is  a little workhorse. stable and userfu.l.    
so i does not mean you have to read and write and otherwise  clump the 
diisk on its head.   but a maximum logical partician  with atar FS on 
that  partician.  the reason is that  formats dont care if you have 1000 
sectors or  2000000 sectors,   lookat the  big FS   some folks under 
older TOS used it.  minic FS and FS2.   it is a complex and peculiar 
engineering problme.   I could write something, but I would have to get 
invovled with lega issuses.  like proprietary disk interfaces.  I cant 
do that.  But  someone else should look at a driver that can help us use 
very large disks.  I personally dont know enought to fix the problem.  I 
am patitently waiting to have my HD fixed   I have 1 105P quantum HDs.   
once upon a time I had a BIG system.  now it is so small folks are 
amazed that it  it still works.  my tos is  rainbow  1.04

josephus

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