sys0001@dircon.uucp (08/14/90)
I'm having a problem installing the new version of SCO UNIX 3.2. The N1 disk is marked Release: 3.2v2.0s. What's happening is that when I start the installation process, by booting off disk N1 and then disk N2, my system does a full reset while it is displaying the configuration information on the inital boot screen. The last diagnostic letter to be displayed is G. About 1/2 a second after G is displayed, the machine performs a hard reset. There are no panic or other messages displayed. I'm using a Wyse 386 16Mhz PC, with the Adaptec 1542B disk controller and a Wren VI SCSI disk drive. The PC has almost 6Mbytes of RAM. There are no other cards installed in the system (apart from the Wyse EGA adapter, running on a mono screen, and a Wyse serial port). Previously, I had the old Version 3.2.0 of SCO UNIX on this machine. It originally installed with no problems and has booted up everytime since without fail. One difference I have found between the old and new version is that in the list of configured devices which comes up on the boot screen, a SCSI tape drive seems to be already defined in the new version. The old version did not have this defined. Currently I do not have a tape drive for this machine. Note this is not an upgrade...I am installing the new UNIX version from scratch. Has anyone come across this problem? Is there a fix? Thank you in advance for your help. Regards, Ben -- sys0001@dircon.UUCP or sys0001%dircon@ukc.ac.uk
root@edat.UUCP (Superuser) (08/14/90)
In article <1990Aug13.170805.28253@dircon.uucp> sys0001@dircon.uucp () writes: >I'm having a problem installing the new version of SCO UNIX 3.2. >The N1 disk is marked Release: 3.2v2.0s. > >What's happening is that when I start the installation process, by >booting off disk N1 and then disk N2, my system does a full reset >while it is displaying the configuration information on the inital >boot screen. > I had this same type of problem installing on my machine. I had to do with the fact that I had a CPU cache--386, 33MHz. With the cache controler turned on, right after the N1 disk was it, and it should have asked for the N2, BOOM! It reboots. Turned off the cache, it worked fine. Turned the cache back on once install was done. However, you said you have a 386, 16MHz. Well, I doubt that has a cache on board. I found my answer by reading the vendors documentation on installing OS/2. It apparently would have had the same problem as Unix. Therefore check your docs on OS/2 installation to see if anything special need be done. -- Brian Douglass uunet!edat!brian
chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) (08/17/90)
We had really odd behavior on our SCO Unix installation, though ours happened before the initial boot screen even appeared. The cause was incompatibility with the video board, a Paradise Auto-Switch 350. We switched to a True Blue IBM Monochrome board and everything worked MUCH better. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip> "Most of my code is written by myself. That is why so little gets done." -- Herman "HLLs will never fly" Rubin