mjoshi@hpldsla.HP.COM (03/31/89)
I have a problem with booting SCO Xenix 2.2.3 on an HP Vectra ES/12 286 AT box. The problem occurs when booting from floppy for the filesystem (N2) part of the OS. The screen blanks out and the Vectra just dies. The SCO people claim that the problem is with the HP EGA monitor that I am using. They support the IBM EGA card in the strict sense, although I do think they should be compatible. I don't suppose the drivers are incompatible either, since the VGA card when used in the EGA mode does work. I did try the fix floppies and they too did not work. Any one tried this before and came across such a problem? I would appreciate it if someone has a solution. Manoj Joshi. Scientific Instruments Division, HP. (415)857-7099
karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) (04/01/89)
In article <2300001@hpldsla.HP.COM> mjoshi@hpldsla.HP.COM wrote: >I have a problem with booting SCO Xenix 2.2.3 on an HP Vectra >ES/12 286 AT box. The problem occurs when booting from floppy >for the filesystem (N2) part of the OS. The screen blanks out >and the Vectra just dies. I had a similar problem a couple of days ago, on a 6 MHz IBM PC-AT with a true-blue EGA. Mine gave a blank screen with a lonely cursor when I tried to boot from the hard disk. It worked after I removed cards that XENIX didn't recognize (Ethernet card, tape drive card). These cards worked OK after XENIX was fully installed. A friend tells me he had to install an IBM mono card and an IBM monitor on systems he was upgrading to 2.2.3. He couldn't do the installation properly on his Hercules (Hercules clone?) adapters. Chuck Karish hplabs!hpda!mindcrf!karish (415) 493-7277 karish@forel.stanford.edu
chapman@sco.COM (Brian Chapman) (04/04/89)
In article <1234@Portia.Stanford.EDU> karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) writes: >In article <2300001@hpldsla.HP.COM> mjoshi@hpldsla.HP.COM wrote: >>I have a problem with booting SCO Xenix 2.2.3 on an HP Vectra >>ES/12 286 AT box. The problem occurs when booting from floppy >>for the filesystem (N2) part of the OS. The screen blanks out >>and the Vectra just dies. > Make sure you have one of the real PC-clone type vectras. There are older 286 Vectras that required a special vectra version of 2.2 SCO Xenix. Also the special vectra version will not run on the later true clones. Note: there is nothing _wrong_ with the old non-clone Vectras. Hp had a few features that were "better than" IBM compatible and it took them a while to part with them. -- Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Brian Chapman uunet!sco!chapman SCO UNIX 3.2 Development